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Contemplating murder? Helpful scientific advice is available from the Poison Information Center...
Convinced that "tobacco, in the form of cigarettes, is a poison more lethal than the deadliest narcotic," Oregon's Democratic Senator Maurine Neuberger, who gave up her own addiction six years ago, vowed to "introduce legislation to deal with this tragic problem." Her probable bill: a new tax on cigarettes to subsidize cancer research...
...significant findings: > Though scarce and "very costly," said Yale University's Dr. Robert E. Handschumacher, a new drug shows unique promise in relieving the crises of adult patients suffering from some forms of acute leukemia. Earlier anti-leukemic drugs worked mostly in children and were almost as poisonous to the patient as to his cancerous cells. But 6-azauridine, which has to be injected, and a still newer chemical variant that can be taken by mouth apparently do not poison the patient's blood, brain or guts. They have helped severely ill patients for five or six weeks...
Rose, suffering from schizophrenia, became convinced that people were trying to poison her, that men were following her. Psychiatrists gave the Williamses two alternatives: commit Rose to an asylum or risk a prefrontal lobotomy, a much-questioned operation. Williams' parents signed the paper for the operation, which left Rose calmed, often lucid, but incapable of recovery. Guilt at his inability to help his sister engulfed Williams, and she still haunts his memory and imagination. Rose is now in a mental hospital in Westchester County, N.Y., and Williams pays upwards of $1,000 a month for her care. When...
...without a trace of alcohol in their systems. Glue-sniffing parties have resulted in vicious beatings. One boy was attacked by his best friend, who came at him with a broken bottle; another challenged a quartet of marines to a fight. Dr. Alan K. Done, director of the Poison Center at Salt Lake County General Hospital, sees a further-and more serious-danger in glue inhalation. Says Dr. Done: "I have found definite evidence of effects on the kidneys from glue sniffing. It is too soon to know whether this effect is temporary or permanent damage...