Word: pill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there was the doctor investigating the side effects of the pill. In his zeal to prove that the side effects were largely psychosomatic, he prescribed a sugar placebo to unknowing Chicano women who had approached him for the contraceptive. The game ended when, nine months later, they all gave birth to unwanted babies...
...were also recently informed that a physician studying the side effects of the pill had prescribed a sugar placebo in lieu of the contraceptive to Chicano patients. These women were to be the "controls" in his experiment. To their surprise the women soon found themselves burdened with unwanted pregnancies...
...heroin, alcohol, or evangelical Christianity. The latter generally choose alcohol, because it is cheap and plentiful, and with the figures topping six million, alcoholics are indeed plentiful in our society. There will always be a small minority who will seek a savior in a bottle or a pill; but the world they run from is the same we all live in; their terrors are self-constructed. They, and we, have more to fear from fear itself than any drug man can or will discover...
...which had been going on for 20 years. The research had included allergy experiments in which inmates got various substances injected under their skin to gauge their effect; the pay was $6 per visit to the doctor. More controversial was testing in connection with development of a male contraceptive pill. Volunteers received $10 a month for weekly sperm specimens, plus $25 for periodic biopsies of the scrotal skin. After a year, they were paid a $100 bonus, and underwent mandatory vasectomies because, in some cases, their testicles had been exposed to the possibility of radiation damage...
Graybill recalls that he only wanted a note saying that the couple was practicing birth control - known in the field as a "baby letter" or "Pill letter." But Mrs. Lewicke figured that he wanted even more. She wrote a letter saying that she did not want to have any chil dren, that she would have an abortion if she got pregnant, and that her hus band would have a vasectomy if the loan company so wished. Once the loan was secured, she set about to rid the mortgage business of the common demand for baby letters. Independently, three national women...