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Suspecting that Greg was suffering from schizophrenia, Bob and Gloria Aller sought help from an expert at their alma mater, the University of California, Los Angeles. Their fears were confirmed. But they also received some good news: Greg was eligible for a sophisticated UCLA research project that would provide him with the enormously expensive treatment and medication required by schizophrenia. The Allers felt they had found a way out for their troubled son. Instead they found a descent into hell...
...road to science is paved with good intentions. Gregory Aller had volunteered for an experiment designed to study the early years of schizophrenia, the onset of schizophrenic relapse, how to predict relapse, and how to determine who would and who would not be affected by withdrawal of medication. In the short term, that meant Aller would get medicine to make him well. But the long-range realities were harrowing. If he got well, the experiment would follow Greg as medication was withdrawn. If he then became ill, he could fall into the worst stages of psychotic relapse. Last March, Keith...
...Angeles, $2 to $5 buys a teenager a 10-to-12-hour LSD high. "LSD may be a prime example of generational forgetting," says Lloyd Johnston, principal investigator for the study. "Today's youngsters don't hear what an earlier generation heard -- that LSD may cause bad trips, flashbacks, schizophrenia, brain damage, chromosomal damage...
...counterbalance "The Last Stand in Waco" and the Spur Posse's paid talk show appearances. Our generation is caught between the counterculture of the sixties and the Nintendo culture of the eighties, and we need all the help we can get to overcome our cultural schizophrenia...
...fresh discoveries of schizophrenia and mental incompetency were all for naught. Further appeals were dismissed on procedural grounds after the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985 began a series of rulings limiting the introduction of new evidence into cases already under appeal. Says O'Brien: "Bobby's death sentence is the product of a complete breakdown of the adversary system. The true defense in this case has never been inside a courtroom, and it never will be." In the eyes of the law, Bobby Shaw has been and always will be a normal, functioning citizen -- and fit for execution...