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...people lined up at money machines are not all addicted wretches, of course. Most cocaine users do not get hooked. Says New York Psychiatrist Richard Resnick: "Just as with alcohol, there are those who can use coke on occasion and have no problems, and there are cocaholics." Statutes cannot recognize such a distinction (although Delaware's try, with lesser penalties for addicted dealers), nor should smug cocaine apologists be permitted to bandy the distinction about as a shield. But it is necessary to an understanding of just how such a dangerous drug could become so pervasive, even routine. "The only...
...describes Iying motionless in festering ragpiles--on one attempts to direct his aimless stumbling until his freshman year in college. It is then that the audience sees for the first time the product of this hellish existence, as he converses confidentially with the piped-in voice of a psychiatrist, and revisits and rejects his home. Although obviously still confused, he marries and starts his own family. The final image of the play is one of his bending close to his wife and first child, a reformed echo of the opening scene...
...later, John Hinckley shot and wounded President Reagan, along with Presidential Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and D.C. Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. At the trial last May, Mrs. Hinckley said she threw her son out as part of a plan devised by John's psychiatrist, John Hopper Jr., to force him to be less dependent on his parents. Hopper testified that he did not consider his young patient mentally ill and never thought there was much "cause for concern...
Last week Brady, McCarthy and Delahanty joined in a $14 million suit against Hopper. Filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, it contends that the psychiatrist misdiagnosed Hinckley as having only minor problems and rejected his parents' suggestions that he be institutionalized. They had a dozen sessions in his Evergreen, Colo., office, the final one a month before the shootings. The suit charges that the doctor failed to warn police of "the reasonable likelihood that Hinckley would attempt a political assassination," despite Hinckley's admission that his "mind was on the breaking point." Hinckley, judged innocent by reason...
Paul Smith, a lawyer for the American Psychiatric Association, said that there is a precedent of sorts for such a lawsuit. The Supreme Court of California has held that a psychiatrist can be held liable for the actions of patients where a specific threat could be identified. Says Smith: "A jury would decide whether or not a reasonable psychiatrist would have done more to protect society than this...