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...affluent middle-class America have just begun to turn to narcotics in frustration or perhaps boredom with the world. They may be taking the permissiveness in which they were raised too literally. Sociologists William Simon and John Gagnon suggest: "We have become, as a nation, a population of pill-takers. Both the actual miracle and the myth of modern medicine have made the use of drugs highly legitimate. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation was." Add to that...
...doctor at the School of Public Health is conducting a survey of over 100,000 married women in eastern Massachusetts to investigate the health hazards of the pill...
...thing we are all aware of is the need for more information," said Dr. Brian MacMahon, director of the survey and professor of Epidemiogy at the School of Public Health. "More than 10 million women are using the pill, and we must learn as soon as possible whether the doubts expressed by some physicians are being realized...
...study will determine what percentage of the women polled take the pill and whether they have been hospitalized in the past year. Using hospital records, the researchers will determine whether the frequency of those diseases commonly associated with the pill-for example, breast cancer and blood clotting-is higher in women who take the pill than in women...
...survey questionnaires also ask the number and age of the women's children and, if she takes the pill, how long she has taken...