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...addiction), they showed no lasting ill effects, but nearly all of those who went in for multiple drugs had to be returned to the U.S. for psychiatric treatment. In sum, the Army doctors conclude, hashish may induce a severe, long-lasting mental illness in individuals who are predisposed to schizophrenia, especially if it is used simultaneously with other powerful drugs. Some of the effects may resemble those that result from physical damage to the brain. In any case, heavy use leads to severe lung damage. While moderate hashish use by normal individuals has nothing to commend it, the report suggests...
...want to enter Czechoslovakia's overcrowded universities. The Czechoslovak press has launched an all-out attack on religion in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. In Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, the most heavily Catholic region, the Communist Party organ Pravda warned readers that religion causes schizophrenia, leads to mental imbalance and encourages crime. The national army paper Obrana Lidu denounced the Vatican as the world's "greatest center of ideological subversion...
...Mind. Much of this effort is directed toward treating schizophrenia, which is the diagnosis in more than half of all China's psychiatric cases; paranoid forms of the disorder are especially common...
Diagnosis proved difficult, expensive and exasperating. Psychologists tended to classify Noah as retarded. Neurologists generalized about brain damage. Terms such as schizophrenia and autism seemed to cover all the ground but never really defined any of it. "The medical profession," Greenfeld writes, "was merely playing Aristotelian nomenclature and classification games at our expense." Considering that 33 of every 1,000 children born in the U.S. are or become severely retarded or disturbed, the cost in money and parental nerves must be enormous...
...future and peace in our time," intoned the Chicago Daily News. "From the bottom of our hearts, we hope it works." As usual, the opposition Tribune saw it differently: "Nixon is taking a risk, but it still looks like a soundly calculated one." The same sort of editorial schizophrenia prevailed in Detroit, where the News praised "the action that took guts," while the Knight Free Press saw Nixon's televised talk as "an incredible nightmare" 'and asked: "Is he so insecure that he is willing to see the world blown to smithereens to avoid being the first President...