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...Metabolic Specialist Vincent Dole and his wife, Psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, conducted the first pioneering experiments in methadone maintenance. Their success helped make maintenance a preferred U.S. method of rehabilitation. Already some 60,000 of the country's 600,000 addicts are being treated at 460 public and private clinics in 40 states; another 30,000 are on waiting lists. As use widens, problems mushroom, and critics have begun to remind advocates that heroin itself, when it was discovered in 1898, was touted as a desirable alternative to morphine...
...sicker when young, the brighter when grown? It seems an unlikely proposition, but Psychologist Robert Helmreich of the University of Texas at Austin and Psychiatrist William Prescott of the U.S. Public Health Service in San Juan, P.R., argue that it is true. The Teddy Roosevelt effect, Helmreich calls it, after the President who emerged from a sickly childhood into an adulthood of endeavor and accomplishment...
...investigation of the phenomenon, University of Iowa Psychiatrist Russell Noyes Jr. has made it easier for other researchers by translating a long-neglected 1892 report* by Swiss Geologist Albert Heim. Probably the best collection of sudden-death experiences available, the report details interviews that Heim had with some 30 survivors of Alpine falls after he himself nearly died in a similar accident. Psychiatrist Noyes also analyzed other accounts of 19th and 20th century near fatal accidents and published his conclusions in a recent issue of Psychiatry...
...Laing, noted British psychiatrist and youth culture guru, presented a multi-faceted attack on what he termed the "antihuman" state of the medical and psychiatric environments last night to an overflow crowd at Tufts's Couzens Gymnasium in Medford...
Materially, the rescue missions' output is prodigious. They served 14 million meals in North America last year, according to one estimate?usually without any public financial aid and often at a low cost that public institutions would envy. More to the point, says Connecticut Psychiatrist David Morley, a consultant to the McAuley mission, "the mission's love goes to a segment of humanity that we like to ignore." Founder McAuley would have been one of the ignored ones, says Morley. "In the medical understanding of today, he would have been written off as an incurable psychopath. This kind of person...