Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rutgers University professor recently discovered a new oral contraceptive he claims produces none of the side effects of the conventional pill...
...pill must be tested furtehr and will probably take four or five years to reach the mass market, he added...
...such well-meaning advice doesn't work, even the least pill-happy physician usually writes out prescriptions for chemical Band-aids; after all, time is limited. Supposing even that doesn't work, the student will be advised to talk to a UHS psychiatrist. He or she will not be exposed to the humiliation integral to many of the quack therapies (such as EST's day-long sessions with two rest periods, no cigarettes or alcohol, just a barrage of ideology that costs $300.) But the message, in the end, will most likely be bald in the extreme: "Bite the bullet...
...which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they kept on his activities. On many occasions, Hughes gulped as much as 40 mg. at one time, a dosage that exceeds even the recommended daily medication for agitated mental patients. After the pill popping, he would doze for hours. In a deposition given in June, Dr. Homer Clark, one of Hughes' three physicians, conceded that Valium was not required for medical reasons. Hughes was evidently taking the pills for mental sensations...
...violently that the syringe was often left dangling in his arm. According to Personal Aide Howard Eckersley, the liquid was a codeine solution. Hughes, who called the drugs "my goodies," would toss a codeine tablet into a water-filled hypodermic and shake the syringe until the pill melted. Then he would give himself a shot; if he could find a vein in his wizened body, he would mainline the injection...