Word: klerman
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Boston police and New York State's Bureau of Narcotics Control are concerned: both held seminars on narcotics control for the benefit of college administrators. The New York bureau has collected evidence of marijuana use at 15 upstate New York campuses. Dr. Gerald L. Klerman of the Harvard Medical School staff estimates that 10% of the students at such large urban universities as Harvard, Stanford and California's Berkeley campus are "chronic users." As many as a third of the undergraduates at Yale and Columbia, according to an informed estimate, have at least tried the drug. And Cornell...
...Klerman, who is assistant director of psychiatry for the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, enumerated the dangers (suicide, lasting psychosis, etc.) of such drugs, and said that the dangers far out-weighed the "very slight" possibility of any possitive uses...
Scientific evidence," said Dr. Klerman, "runs counter to the claims of Richard Alpert and others that psilocybin is safe. Nor is there evidence that it can help the mentally disturbed or produce important insights for normal people...
Agreeing with Klerman that consciousness-expanding drugs are indeed dangerous, Smith said he was "cautiously optimistic" that these drugs could also prove to be beneficial. In discussing the possible benefits, he said he would proceed on the assumption that the dangers could be minimized...
Smith said that some psychiatrists believe that the drugs can be useful in psychotherapy and that present restrictions should be loosened to allow this use. Klerman argued that the present Federal Food and Drug regulations should be more stringently enforced...