Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the psychedelic drugs may eventually do more than merely give the psychiatrist a better look. There is evidence that it may be effective in rehabilitating alcoholics and narcotics addicts. Several doctors, among them Eric Kast of the Chicago Medical School, have reported LSD useful in relieving both the pain and anxiety of dying patients. Kast theorizes that the dissolution of anticipation, the concentration on the present moment, which may be beneficial to the dying, is also what appeals to some of the young, for whom so much of life is deferred. "LSD impairs anticipation, and that...
...cost them about $34,000 each, counting lost income while studying, and 20% developed ulcers or nervous disorders. The study worsened Schrodt's own nervous stomach and fed the growing feeling among many educators that the Ph.D., at least for teachers, may not be worth all that time, pain and expense...
...This dual delusion, he said, has given the war in Viet Nam "an ideological character similar to the holy wars of former times." In such a conflict, punishment has "particularly little likelihood of success." The notion, he added, that one can "cause people to abandon their ideologies by inflicting pain on them should have died in Rome with the Christian martyrs...
...service for good if he can: "It's not really a question of dying. If it were, then of course the student deferment is immoral. For all but a few, it is merely a question of spending two years of drudgery. It is just a pain in the neck, not a bullet in the head...
...twice, a husky piece of metal was too deeply embedded in the right ventricle wall to permit removal. This man, now 42, works part time, and his main complaint is that he was twice subjected to unnecessary surgery. Not one of the 40 men has developed the agonizing pain of angina pectoris. All but two have normal electrocardiograph tracings. Though understandably apprehensive, all but five are working, at least part time, some at active jobs...