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...magistrate yesterday postponed the sentencing of a former Harvard freshman proctor and Social Studies tutor--who worked last year as a Senate staffer--accused of heroin possession...
...unable to talk, bent over and hardly able to move, was brought to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. His symptoms were similiar to those of patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which usually affects the elderly. Dr. William Langston speculated that the cause might be something in the heroin that the victim used. The doctor and his team were able to track down others who had used the same batch of the drug and found similar reactions. Through a chance conversation with another doctor, help from police, and tips resulting from a newspaper story, Langston uncovered other cases...
Several months later Langston read an article in a medical journal about a chemist who had killed himself after contracting Parkinson's-like symptoms from a dose of artificial heroin. From a report analyzing the dead chemist's brain, Langston found that the heroin involved contained an additive similar to the one in the bad batch of heroin he had been studying. The mysterious ingredient, a chemical known as MPTP, had moved from the blood into the brain and damaged the same area affected by Parkinson's disease. No other substance is known to do that. Last April Dr. Irwin...
...says Atlanta Litigator Oscar Persons. "How do they expect the owner of a hotel to protect each and every one of his guests?" Prison authorities, for example, could soon face such a legal quagmire as a result of acquired immune-deficiency syndrome, the mysterious disease prevalent among homosexuals and heroin addicts. May a government be sued if a prisoner contracts AIDS while in custody? What actions might a court later decide should have been taken to protect inmates, many of whom are drug abusers or engage in homosexual activity...
...information hearing on May 23, Breindel pleaded guilty to heroin possession, which is considered a misdemeanor. Sentencing will take place on August 8, after the magistrate receives a report about the incident drafted by the court's probation department...