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Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Make It Legal? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Technically charged with possessing narcotics, but not under arrest, Ross will go to the U.S. Public Health Service hospital for drug addicts, in Lexington, Ky. The hospital was established a decade ago to end the old policy of throwing addicts in jail like criminals. Of the 792 narcotic patients now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On the Ropes | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

For practical purposes, Dr. Seliger defines an alcoholic as a person who is "handled by alcohol" to such an extent that it takes him out of one or more of the traffic lanes of life; he uses liquor as a narcotic. A "social," or moderate, drinker, is one who is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alcoholic Illness | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

As they moved into North China and Inner Mongolia, the Japanese replanted the poppy fields that had once provided the war lords with revenue. They opened big narcotic factories; a report from Kalgan said that the local heroin plant produced enough each day (50 kilograms) to supply 15 times the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thirty Million New Addicts | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Many of the recommendations, as the committee was well aware, are not new. But where the committee parted company with other planners, notably Beardsley Ruml, was in insisting on a budget balanced every year rather than over the business cycle. Its chief argument was that deficit spending is a "narcotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: For an Intelligent Secretary | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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