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While Greg and his parents understood that Phase 2 dealt with identifying schizophrenia patients who could be treated without continuing doses of Prolixin, the Allers last year came across a document they thought suggested that the doctors had a somewhat different agenda. In a 1988 paper, based on data from UCLA's experiment, Nuechterlein and one of his graduate students reported on early, or "prodromal," signs of schizophrenic relapse. They noted that their study differed from earlier studies in following research subjects in relapse "to the severe or extremely severe level." In contrast to other studies, the paper claimed, this...
...last half of 1989, Greg alternated medicine with a placebo until the Prolixin was completely withdrawn. "In October and November, I started having delusions about Ronald Reagan and the space aliens," says Greg. "I thought I'd seen some space aliens walking around cloaked as humans. Through mind contact, they told me they wanted me to help them infiltrate the U.S. They were already infiltrating police departments and the government...
...because I was worried that the space aliens wouldn't approve." Greg's clinical records between January and May 1990 suggest that he apparently fooled everyone -- his doctors, his caseworkers, even his parents. Bob and Gloria say they knew nothing of the space aliens. They wanted him back on Prolixin because of his physical and emotional deterioration...
...took several months and a larger than standard dose of Prolixin to stabilize Greg even a little. He continued seeing aliens through August. At one point he tried hitching a ride to Washington to throw a canister of poison gas at George Bush. (The aliens, he said, "wanted Quayle to be President. They felt they could control him.") He got as far as East Los Angeles...
Today Greg Aller is once again in school, part time. He dropped out of the program shortly after his parents began their protests in early 1991; he continues to take Prolixin in tablet form, from a private psychiatrist. His GPA has fallen to 2.8; he feels he is strong enough only for part-time classes; he has symptoms of tardive dyskinesia. "I'm very angry about this whole thing," he says. But he asks with a smile, "Did you know I was born on Friday the 13th...