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Such revelations have broken down corporate resistance to taking a strong stand against drugs. Psychiatrist Robert DuPont, a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse who now helps companies set up antidrug programs, says that employers "have gone through a mental barrier that was blocking them before. What was that barrier? The barrier was that it was a private matter. The barrier was that it was not very important. The barrier was that there was not anything to be done about it anyhow. The barrier was that it was a societal problem and not a work-related problem...
Stone cuts to location, where a few little problems have cropped up even before Walker arrives. Lu Anne has taken herself off the medication that is supposed to control her schizophrenia because, as she explains to her psychiatrist husband, "I'm finding the drug very hard to work behind." + Unwilling to face what may follow, the husband goes ahead with plans to take their two children on a visit to his parents in South Africa. His departure leaves the star alone to face her "Long Friends," hallucinatory specters that have attended her since her Louisiana childhood. She must also deal...
Other side effects associated with some of the research include drowsiness, lethargy, and dizziness, says Orzack. Every subject must be deemed fit by a psychiatrist to go home, and "we always send them home in a cab," she says. "[Using depressants] is like being really drunk, but without the sickness or the alcohol. It's like you're in a bubble," says one participant...
...control themselves," observed Guidance Counselor Nancy Bednar. "It's a sense of 'Who will be next?' " Teachers urged students to take a pledge not to make "any big decisions . . . without taking a day to think it over." At a forum on the suicides, parents and others shouted down Psychiatrist John Florian Riedler with such comments as "I once tried to commit suicide, years ago. No one ever tried to help me." Said Riedler: "Hysteria swept over this part of town last week...
Even so, specialists in adolescent development argue that these factors merely add to the normal turbulence of adolescent identity crisis and separation from parents. Harvard Psychiatrist Douglas Jacobs says that "certain teens reach the point where they feel they are not going to achieve an identity. They don't see a future. For a moment in time, suicide seems to be the only way to get relief...