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...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...
...action is not unexpected. DES, an estrogen-like substance, has been used for years to prevent pregnancy in women who take it as long as 72 hours after intercourse; it has proved an effective "morning-after" pill in tests with 1,000 University of Michigan coeds (TIME, Nov. 8, 1971). The drug has also been prescribed during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage. But, used that way, it may be dangerous. Doctors have found a high incidence of vaginal cancers in the teen-age daughters of women who took the drug. The use of DBS as a growth hormone in cattle feeds...
According to its manufacturers, methaqualone is a dependable and effective sleeping pill. Blurbs in the standard Physicians' Desk Reference attest to its "sedative and hypnotic" effects and its ability to induce prompt sleep, but warn that the drug may also produce dependency. The warning is appropriate. Though the drug may be safe if it is taken as prescribed by a physician, increasing numbers of Americans-especially on campuses and in ghettos-are obtaining the drug illegally and taking it indiscriminately. Methaqualone is rapidly becoming one of the most popular -and dangerous-drugs of abuse in the U.S. The Government...