Word: halpern
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...cognitive or psychological problems among Native American regular users, some of whom even performed better on psychological tests than those with minimal substance use. It's certainly too much to say that every peyote user emerges undamaged by the drug, and the lead researcher on the study, Dr. John Halpern, takes care to stress that his findings apply only to the Native American groups he studied...
...mescaline, which are often whipped up in unpoliced labs in uncontrolled ways, present different problems. The condition that the experts call HPPD (hallucinogen persisting perception disorder) and that users call flashbacks is a very real problem. But Halpern says it is relatively rare, striking mostly people who use LSD specifically. But there are other risks too. Some trips have ended catastrophically, with suicides or fatal accidents. In other cases, the disaster was not physical but emotional. "There were a lot of people who decompensated into major mental illness," says Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's school...
These days, more and more local kids are good enough to do it. They’re getting drafted, too—Hafner in 2002 by the Florida Panthers, Werner in 2002 by the Capitals—and soon enough, Jeff Halpern may not be alone...
...still wears his Orioles cap, and Sundays still belong to the ’Skins. And maybe a few years down the road, if things work out, Marylanders will spend winters watching Halpern, Hafner and the rest of the local boys make good...
...campfire ceremonies.Five years ago, the researchers from McLean—a Boston hospital specializing in mental health—set out to verify the claims of the Native American Church that the drug causes little, if any, long-term psychological damage. For the study, Instructor in Psychiatry John H. Halpern traveled to the Southwest to spend time with members of the Navajo tribe. During his stay, Halpern consumed peyote as part of the Church’s sacrament and conducted tests on hundreds of tribe members. The study compared the results of a basic psychological exam given to 60 Native...