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...burgeoning use of computers by non-scientists is the result of a phenomenon known as "transparency." A tool is transparent if the user is aware of the problem he is trying to solve, not of the mechanics of the operation. When you write, for example, you don't worry about the way the paper was made or how your pen works (unless it runs out of ink). When you make a phone call, you are hardly conscious of the complex path followed by the electrical impulses. Only if the line is busy do you appreciate the vehicle of communication...
...physiological need for narcotics, however, is only one of the many things that hook a user. The two other major contributors are the user's psychological makeup and his conditioned behavioral pattern-the strong likelihood that a return to old haunts and old friends will ease the post-addict back into old habits. Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns. They decided to try it on outpatients on the theory that when an addict's surroundings led him to take dope...
...fully aware," concluded Jaffe and Brill, "that our enthusiasm may be playing an even larger role than cyclazocine." Whether that enthusiasm is a necessary ingredient, and whether it can be transmitted to patients "more typical of the antisocial urban heroin user," is something that can only be learned with further testing...
...most disturbing aspects of the LSD binge is that it has hit high schools and prep schools. A 17-year-old user reports that there is a sales ring in his Sherman Oaks school pushing LSD at a penny a microgram. The usual dose of the pure chemical, used by psychiatric investigators, is 100 mcg. (1/300,000th of an ounce), but even junior acid heads boast of taking walloping overdoses. "I've taken as much as 500 micrograms," says one youthful user. "At least that's what I paid...
Such dangers do not deter the acid heads, or "psychedelics"-even though some users are willing to admit that they found no great "show," or had a "freak trip" (a bad one), or "tripped out" (the worst kind). Said one two-time user last week: "Would I try it again? No, because I've been to places inside myself where no one should ever go." Most psychiatrists who have had to treat post-LSD patients would agree...