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Methadone's advocates answer that whatever its drawbacks, it is far less dangerous than heroin. They reject the notion that dependency is undesirable. Dr. Barry Ramer, whose Center for Special Problems has just won a $121,000 grant from the city of San Francisco, equates methadone with insulin, which some diabetics take daily without suffering social opprobrium. Herman Lancaster of the state-sponsored Illinois Drug Abuse Program stresses that methadone enables the addict "to do what he could never do before." Dr. Robert DuPont, head of the Washington, D.C., Narcotics Treatment Administration, calls total and unassisted abstinence, which...
...University Group Diabetes Program, an organization of twelve medical schools that had been studying the oral drug. The study, which followed 823 diabetics for eight years, found that the death rate from cardiovascular diseases was twice as high among patients on tolbutamide as it was among those on insulin treatments or placebos. As a result, the FDA recommended that tolbutamide be used only in cases in which the established treatments−dieting and insulin injections−had proved ineffective...
...conglomerates it, like a Jay Gould, an Onassis, a Cornfeld of Conversation. Anyone who has spent a three-day weekend with Lenny in the country, by the shore, or captive on some lonesome cay in the Windward islands knows that feeling- the alternating spells of adrenal stimulation and insulin coma as the Great Interrupter, the Village Explainer, the champion of Mental Jotto, the Free Analyst, Mr. Let's Find Out, leads the troops on 2 seventy-two-hour forced march through the lateral geniculate and the pyramids of Betz, no breathers allowed, until every human brain is reduced finally...
Unsterile Needles. Metals are still harder to deal with, especially the 1.2 billion disposable stainless steel needles attached to plastic syringes that are now used each year in the U.S. Of this total, nearly 800 million are used in hospitals, almost 200 million by diabetics giving themselves insulin, as many more by doctors and nurses in their offices, and the remainder by nursing homes, researchers and veterinarians...
...psychosis. Some authorities are concerned that physicians may prescribe the drug too freely, for it may be dangerous. Double the usual prescribed dose can make a person miserably ill, and more might cause coma and death. Yet by this criterion lithium carbonate is no more dangerous than digitalis or insulin. Despite their poor profit prospects, three U.S. drug manufacturers are now marketing the compound as a public service. No one knows how many U.S. mental patients qualify for it: the figure most often quoted is around...