Word: pill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that the haggard man pictured was a 21-year-old "strungout" on speed. A headline under the picture said, "Happy 21st Birthday, Johnny." The ad stated that the man had started taking speed in pill form and then graduated to shooting methedrine...
...some months of his presidency, the distinction seemed lost on Nixon and his Justice Department, whose crackdown on marijuana induced a pot famine and sent many of the young to amphetamines, barbiturates and other more serious drugs. Said Abbie Hoffman with typical hyperbole: "Richard Nixon was becoming the biggest pill pusher of them all." At a White House conference on narcotics in December, Nixon confessed: "I thought that the answer was simply enforce the law. But when you're talking about 14-year-olds and 15-year-olds, the answer is information. The answer is understanding...
...company has spent generously on drug research for two decades, but its first really promising product, an oral flu-preventive pill called Symmetrel, has been a commercial flop since it was introduced in 1967. Reason: Du Pont lacked both expertise and a sales force for drug marketing, and one result was that doctors generally did not prescribe it. Corfam, the first synthetic leather to "breathe," cost $60 million to get into production in 1964, but quick and stiff competition has made it only barely profitable. Du Pont is now improving the versatility of Corfam-in order to expand...