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...address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, Dr. Gerald L. Klerman, professor of psychiatry, attributed the growing dispension of tranquilizers to "the expanding definition of illness in our society...
...Declaration of Independence guarantees us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Today people expect these rights to be covered by Blue Cross," Klerman said yesterday...
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...
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...