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Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs - Table of Contents
Nineteenth-century America a dope fiend's paradise
Opiates for pain relief - for tranquilization - and for pleasure
What kinds of people used opiates?
Effects of opium - morphine - and heroin on addicts
Some eminent narcotics addicts
Opium Smoking Is Outlawed
The Pure Food and Drugs Act
The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
Tightening up the Harrison Act
Why our narcotics laws have failed: (1) Heroin is an addicting drug
Why our narcotics laws have failed: (2) The economics of the black market
The heroin overdose mystery and other occupational hazards of heroin addiction
Supplying heroin legally to addicts
Enter methadone maintenance
How well does methadone maintenance work?
Methadone side effects
Why methadone maintenance works
Methadone maintenance spreads
The future of methadone maintenance
Heroin on the youth drug scene - and in Vietnam
Caffeine - Early History
Caffeine - Recent Findings
Tobacco
The case of Dr. Sigmund Freud
Nicotine as an addicting drug
Cigarettes - and the 1964 report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee
A program for the future
The barbiturates for sleep and for sedation
Alcohol and barbiturates: two ways of getting drunk
Popularizing the barbiturates as thrill pills
The nonbarbiturate sedatives and the minor tranquilizers
Should alcohol be prohibited?
Why alcohol should not be prohibited
Coca leaves
Cocaine
The amphetamines
Enter the speed freak
How speed was popularized
The Swedish Experience
Should the Amphetamines Be Prohibited?
Back to cocaine again
A slightly hopeful postscript
The historical antecedents of glue-sniffing
How To Launch a Nationwide Drug Menace
Early use of LSD-like drugs
LSD is discovered
LSD and psychotherapy
Hazards of LSD pyschotherapy
Early nontherapeutic use of LSD
How LSD was popularized - 1962-1969
How the hazards of LSD were augmented - 1962-1969
LSD today: The search for a rational perspective
Marijuana in the Old World
Marijuana in the New World
Marijuana and Alcohol Prohibition
Marijuana is outlawed
America Discovers Marijuana
Can marijuana replace alcohol?
The 1969 marijuana shortage and Operation Intercept
The Le Dain Commission Report
Scope of drug use
Prescription - over-the-counter - and black-market drugs
The Haight-Ashbury - its predecessors and its satellites
Why a youth drug scene?
First steps toward a solution: innovative approaches by indigenous institutions
Alternatives to the drug experience
Emergence from the drug scene
Learning from past mistakes: six caveats
Policy issues and recommendations
A Last Word
Notes
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The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972

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Harold A. Abramson, John Buckman, Sidney Cohen, and The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. for "Theoretical Aspects of LSD Therapy," by John Buckman, and for "Psychotherapy, with LSD Pro and Con," by Sidney Cohen (reprinted from  The Beyond Within:  The LSD Story, Atheneum, New York; copyright © 1964, 1967 by Sidney Cohen). Both published in  The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism, edited by Harold A. Abramson. Copyright © 1967 by Harold A. Abramson. The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc., publisher.

Academic Press for  Toxicology of Drugs and Chemicals, by William B. Deichmann and Horace W. Gerarde. Copyright © 1969 by Academic Press, Inc.

Addiction and Drug Abuse Report for permission to reprint material from  Addiction and Drug Abuse Report, June 1971. Copyright © 1971, by Grafton Publications Inc.

Aldine-Atherton, Inc. for "Habit Mechanisms in Smoking," by William A. Hunt and Joseph D. Matarazzo, published in  Learning Mechanisms in Smoking, edited by W. A. Hunt. Copyright © 1970 by Aldine-Atherton, Inc.

Aldine-Atherton, Inc., for  Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD-25, by Richard H. Blum and Associates. Copyright © 1964 by Atherton Press. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aldine-Atherton, Inc.

Michael R. Aldrich for "Heads Hidden in the Hemp Fields." Copyright © 1970 by Marijuana Research Association.

Harold Alksne, Ray E. Trussell, and Jack Elinson for "A Follow-Up Study of Treated Adolescent Narcotics Users," 1959; unpublished.

Almqvist and Wiksell for "The Present State of Abuse and Addiction to Stimulant Drugs in Sweden," by Gunnar Inghe, edited by Folke Sjöqvist and Malcolm Tottie. Copyright 1969 by Almqvist & Wiksell.

American Cancer Society for "The Teenager Looks at Cigarette Smoking," research study conducted by Lieberman Research, Inc., September 1969.

American College of Physicians for paper presented by Ralph W. Richter, John Pearson and Michael M. Baden at the 51st Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, 1970.

American Institutes for Research for "Factors Related to Successful Abstinence from Smoking: Final Report," by Joan S. Guilford, et al. Copyright © 1966 by American Institutes for Research.

American Journal of Medicine for "Pulmonary Edema in Acute Heroin Poisoning," by Robert Silber and E. P. Clerkin, July 1959. Copyright © 1959 by  American Journal of Medicine.

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology for "Pregnancy in Narcotics Addicts Treated by Medical Withdrawal," by George Blinick, Robert C. Wallach, and Eulogio Jerez, December 1, 1969, and "Pregnancy and Menstrual Function in Narcotics Addicts Treated with 'Methadone," by Robert C. Wallach, Eulogio Jerez, arid George Blinick, December 15, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by C. V. Mosby Company.

The American Journal of Psychiatry for "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25): A Clinical Psychological Study," by Charles Savage, 1952; "Addictive Aspects in Heavy Cigarette Smoking," by Peter H. Knapp, C. M. Bliss and H. Webb, 1963; "A Twelve-Year Follow-up of New York Narcotic Addicts: 1. The Relation of Treatment to Outcome," by George Vaillant, 1965; "Flashbacks: Recurrent Intrusive Images After the Use of LSD," by Mardi J. Horowitz, October 1969; "Crime and LSD: The Insanity Plea," by James T. Barter and Martin Reite, October -1969; an article by James R. Allen, Louis Jolyon West, and Joshua Kaufman, November 1969; and "Navajo Peyote Use-Its Apparent Safety," by Robert L. Bergman, December 1971. Copyright © 1952, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1971 by American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychiatric Association for  The Treatment of Drug Abuse, by Raymond M. Glasscote, et al., 1971; in press for 1972 publication by joint Information Service of the American Psychiatric Association and the National Association for Mental Health.

American Journal of Public Health for "Inside What's Happening: Sociological, Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives on the Contemporary Drug Scene," by Allan Y. Cohen, November 1969. Copyright © 1969 by American Public Health Association, Inc.

American Journal of Psychology for "Some Psychological Aspects of Nicotinism," by F. I. Arntzen, 1948. Copyright 1948 by University of Illinois Press.

American Journal of Surgery for "Epidemic of Fatal Malaria Among Heroin Addicts in New York City," by Milton Helpern, 1943. Copyright 1943 by  American Journal of Surgery.

American Social Health Association for  The Opium Problem, by Charles E. Terry and Mildred Pellens. Copyright 1928 by Committee on Drug Addictions, Bureau of Social Hygiene, Inc.

Annals of Internal Medicine for "The Major Medical Complications of Heroin Addiction," by D. D. Louria, T. Hensle, and J. Rose, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by American College of Physicians.

Harry J. Anslinger for personal communication and "Marijuana: Assassin of Youth," by Harry J. Anslinger arid C. R. Cooper, July 1937,  American Magazine.

Appleton-Century-Crofts for  Principles and Practice of Medicine, 8th ed., by W. Osler and T. MacCrae. Copyright 1916 by Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Archives of General Psychiatry for "On the Use and Abuse of LSD," by Daniel X. Freedman, March 18, 1968; "Organicity Measures Following Repeated LSD Ingestion," by William H. McGlothlin, David 0. Arnold, and Daniel X. Freedman, December 1969, "Chronic Psychosis Associated with Long-Term, Psychotomimetic Drug Abuse," by George S. Glass arid Malcolm B. Bowers, August 1970, and "LSD Re-visited--- A Ten Year Follow-up of Medical LSD Use," by William H. McGlothlin and David 0. Arnold, January 1971. Copyright © 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by the American Medical Association.

Archives of Internal Medicine for articles by Arthur B. Light and Edward G. Torrance,  A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine, vols. 43 (1929) and 44 (1930). Copyright 1929, 1930 by American Medical Association.

Archives of International Pharmacodynamics for "Caffeine-Induced Hemorrhagic Automutilation," by J. M. Peters, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Thérapie.

Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry for "Chronic Psychosis and Addiction to Morphine," by A. Z. Pfeffer and D. C. Ruble, December 1946, and "Chronic Barbiturate Intoxication," by Harris Isbell, et al., July 1950. Copyright © 1946, 1950 by American Medical Association.

Archives of Pathology for "Acute Methyl Alcohol Poisoning," by F. R. Menue, 1938. Copyright 1938 by American Medical Association.

Associated Press Newsfeatures for an article by Robert Berrellez, 1969. Published in the  Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, New York, October 1, 1969.

Astor-Honor for  Chemical Concepts of Psychosis, edited by M. Rinkel and H. C. B.

Denber, 1958. Cited by Morris A. Lipton in "The Relevance of Chemically-Induced Psychoses to Schizophrenia," published in  Psychotomimetic Drugs, Daniel H. Efron, ed., 1970. Reprinted by permission of Astor-Honor, Inc.

Atheneum, and Laurence Pollinger Limited for  The Beyond Within: The LSD Story by Sidney Cohen. Copyright © 1964, 1967 by Sidney Cohen. Atheneum, and Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd., publishers,

Michael M. Baden for "Pathological Aspects of Drug Addiction," from Proceedings of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, 1969.

Mitchell Balter for "The Use of Drugs in Contemporary Society," paper presented at the 14th Annual Conference, Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies in Psychiatry, April 1, 1969; unpublished.

Mitchell Baiter and Jerome Levine for "Character and Extent of Psychotherapeutic Drug Usage in the United States," paper presented at Fifth World Congress on Psychiatry Mexico City, November 30, 1971.

Basic Books, Inc. for  The Road to H: Narcotics, Delinquency and Social Policy, by Isidor Chein, Donald L. Gerard, M.D., Robert S. Lee, and Eva Rosenfeld. Copyright 1964 by Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.

Ronald Bayer for Letter to the Editor, published in the  New York Times, July 20, 1971.

Herbert Benson for Letter to the Editor, "Yoga for Drug Abuse," published in the  New England Journal of Medicine, November 13, 1969.

Herbert Benson and R. Keith Wallace for "Decreased Drug Abuse with Transcendental Meditation," from  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Drug Abuse, November 1970.

Samuel Benson for "Marijuana Use by Medical Students," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 1971; unpublished.

Charles R. Beye for Letter to the Editor, published in the  New York Times, October 30, 1969.

Brandon House for "Myths and Realities of Marijuana Pushing," by Jerry Mandel. Published in  Marijuana Myths and Realities, edited by J. L. Simmons. Copyright © 1967 by Brandon House, Chatsworth, California.

British Journal of Addiction for an article by J. Yerbury Dent, 1952, Copyright 1952 by  British Journal of Addiction.

British Journal of Medical Psychology for "Cigarette Smoking: Natural History of a Dependence Disorder," by, M. A. Hamilton Russell, 1971. Copyright © 1971 by  British Journal of Medical Psychology. Published by Cambridge University Press.

British Medical Journal for October 1922 issue, cited in New York Post, "The Famous Addicts-Article III: Freud and Halsted," by Sally Hammond, July 22, 1970; article by T. H. Bewley, November 1965; and Editorial, August 7, 1971. Copyright 1922, © 1965, 1971 by  British Medical Journal.

Richard Brotman and Alfred M. Freedman for "Perspectives on Marijuana Besearch," work prepared for Center for Studies in Substance Use; unpublished.

Andrew G. Bucaro for personal communication.

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine for "Thoughts on Narcotics Addiction," by Vincent P. Dole, February 1965, Copyright © 1965 by   Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Bulletin on Narcotics
for "Cannabis," by J. Bouquet, 1951, and "The Use of Cannabis Drugs in India," by I. C. Chopra and R. N. Chopra, 1957.

California Medicine for "Psychotherapeutic Drug Use Among Adults in California," by Dean Manheimer, Glen D. Mellinger and Mitchell B. Baiter, December 1968; and in Medicine, Past, Present and Future," by Tod H. Mikuriya, January 1969. Copyright © 1968, 1969 by California Medical Association.

Canadian Medical Association Journal for "The Use of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) in Psychotherapy," by E. F. W. Baker, December 5, 1964; "Coca Leaf and Cocaine Addiction-Some Historical Notes," by H. P. Blejer-Prieto, September 25, 1965; and "What Society Must Do to Solve Problem of Drug Use Among Young," by Honourable John Munro, November 7, 1970. Copyright © 1964, 1965, 1970 by Canadian Medical Association.

Charles E. Cherubin for "The Epidemiology of Death in Narcotics Addicts," by Charles E. Cherubin et al., 1971; unpublished; in press.

Chest for "Epidemiology and Psychology of Cigarette Smoking," by Daniel Horn, May 1971. Copyright © 1971 by American College of Chest Physicians.

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics for "The Role of Nicotine as a Determinant of Cigarette Smoking Frequency in Man with Observations of Certain Cardiovascular Effects Associated with the Tobacco Alkaloid," by B. R. Lucchesi, C. R. Schuster and G. S. Emley, 1967; and "Psychotropic Effects of Caffeine in Man," by Avram Coldstein and Sophia Kaizer, July 8, 1969. Copyright © 1967, 1969 by C. V. Mosby Company.

Sidney Cohen for "LSD and the Anguish of Dying," copyright © 1965 by Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., Inc. Reprinted from the September, 1965 issue of  Harper's Magazine by permission of the author.

Columbia Law School News for an article by Barry L. Morris, November 11, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by   Columbia Law School News.

Comprehensive Psychiatry for "Misapprehension About Drug Addiction: Origins and Repercussions," by Henry Brill, June 1963; "The LSD Controversy," by Jerome Levine and Arnold M. Ludwig, 1964; "An Approach to Treating Narcotic Addicts Based on a Community Mental Health Diagnosis," by Richard Brotman, Alan S. Meyer, and Alfred M. Freedman, April 1965. Copyright © 1963, 1964, 1965 by Crune & Stratton, Inc.

The Controller of Her Britannic Majesty's Stationery Office for  Cannabis–– Report by the Advisory, Committee on Drug Dependence, 1968;  The Amphetamines and Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)–– Report by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence, Department of Health and Social Security, 1970. Reprinted by permission of the Controller of Her Britannic Majesty's Stationery Office.

Crown Publishers for "The Herb Pantagruelion," by François Rabelais, translated by Samuel Putnam. Published in  The Marihuana Papers, edited by David Solomon. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., publisher.

Diseases of the Nervous System for "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25) as an Aid in Psychotherapy," by A. K. Busch and W. C. Johnson, 1950. Copyright 1950 by   Diseases of the Nervous System.

Denver Post, August 2, 1959; June 12, 1960; October 23, December 8, 1961; April 13, 29, 1962; January 18, March 21, April 22, 29, June 25, July 2, 1965; January 11, May 18, June 10, October 30, 1966, Copyright © 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966  Denver Post.

Meyer H. Diskind for "New Horizons in the Treatment of Narcotic Addiction," by Meyer H. Diskind,  Federal Probation, December 1960 and "Narcotic Addiction and Post-Parole Adjustment," by Meyer H. Diskind, Robert F. Hallinanan and George Klonsky, 1963, unpublished, cited in "A Second Look at the New York State Parole Drug Experiment," by Meyer H. Diskind and George Klonsky,  Federal Probation, December 19,64.

Vincent P. Dole for personal communication.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, for  Story of San Michele, by Axel Munthe. Copyright 1929 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Renewal 1932 by Axel Munthe and 1951 by Major Malcolm Munthe. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. and used with their permission.

Encyclopaedia Britannica for "Hemp," "Ether," and "Coffee," 11th edition. Copyright 1910, 1911 by   Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. for  The Murderers by Harry J. Anslinger and Will Oursler. Copyright @) 1961 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

Fawcett Publications, Inc., for  The LSD Story by John Cashman, published by Cold Medal Books. Copyright © 1966 by Fawcett Publications, Inc.

4424 Youth Clinic, Montreal, for Interim Report for 4424, Inc., 1970; unpublished.

Free Press, March 17, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by  Free Press, Burlington, Vermont.

W. H. Freeman and Company for "The Hallucinogenic Drugs," by Frank Barron, Murray E. Jarvik, and Sterling Bunnell, Jr. Copyright © 1964 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.

Funk & Wagnalls Co., Inc. for  The Traffic in Narcotics, by Harry J. Anslinger and William F. Tompkins. Copyright 1953 by Funk & Wagnalls Co., Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., Publishers.

Gavin-jobson Associates for  The Liquor Handbook, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Cavin-jobson Associates.

George R. Gay for paper presented at National Heroin Symposium, June 1971.

George R. Gay et at. for "Short Term Heroin Detoxification on an Outpatient Basis"; unpublished.

Allen Ginsberg for interview,  Los Angeles Free Press, December 1965.

Grove Press and Peter 0wen Ltd. for  The Book of Grass: An Anthology of Indian Hemp, edited by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog. Copyright © 1967 by Peter Owen. Published by Peter Owen, London. Reprinted by permission of Grove Press, Inc.

Grune & Stratton, Inc. for  The Drug Addict as a Patient, by Marie Nyswander. Copyright © 1956 by Grune & Stratton, Inc.

Grune & Stratton, Inc. for "Some Problems of Addiction," by Karl M. Bowman. Published in  Problems of Addiction and Habituation, edited by Paul H. Hock and Joseph Zubin. Copyright © 1957 by Crime & Stratton, Inc.

Seymour Halleck, quoted in  Marijuana–– The New Prohibition, by, John Kaplan.

George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. for  A History of Smoking, by Count Egor Caesar Corti, trans, Paul England, 1931. Copyright 1931 by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.

Daniel Horn for "The Smoking Problem in 1971," presented at American Cancer Society's Thirteenth Annual Science Writers Seminar, 1971.

Hutchinson of London for  Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking, by Edward H. Pinto. Copyright © 1961 by the Hutchinson Publishing Group.

Illinois Medical Journal for "Stripping the Medical Profession of Its Powers and Giving Them to a Body of Lawmakers. The Proposed Amendment to the Harrison Narcotic Act–– Everybody Seems to Know All about Doctoring except the Doctors," June 1926. Copyright 1926 by   Illinois Medical Journal.

Indiana University Press for  Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? Interim and Final Reports of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs. Introduction Copyright © 1969 by Indiana University Press.

Indiana University, Press for  Narcotic Addiction in Britain and America, by Edwin M. Schur. Copyright © 1968 by Indiana University Press.

The International Journal of the Addictions, January 1966; "Plastic Cement: The Ten Cent Hallucinogen," by Edward Preble and Gabriel V. Laury, Fall 1967; "Anesthetic Addiction and Drunkenness," by David R. Nagle; and "A Bibliography on the Inhalation of Glue Fumes and Other Toxic Vapors," by Lenore R. Kupperstein and Ralph M. Susman, both Spring 1968; "Physical, Mental and Moral Effects of Marijuana," by Tod H. Mikuriya, Fall 1968; "Preliminary Observations on Patterns of Drug Consumption Among Medical Students," by Jack D. Blaine, Carl M. Lieberman, and Joseph Hirsh, Fall 1968; "Taking Care of Business-The Heroin User's Life on the Street," by Edward Preble and John J. Casey, Jr., March 1969; "Heroin Addicts on Methadone Replacement: A Study of Dropouts," by Richard G. Adams et at., June 1971; and "Cyclazocine in a Multi-Modality Treatment Program: Comparative Results," by John N. Chappel, Edward C. Senay, and Jerome H. Jaffe, September 1971. Copyright © 1967, 1968 by the Institute for the Study of Drug Addiction. Copyright 1969, 1971 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. Reprinted by courtesy of Marcel Dekker, Inc.

The Johns Hopkins Press for "Analgesics and the Reaction Component of Pain," by Henry K. Beecher. Published in  Drugs and the Brain, edited by Perry Black. Copyright © 1969 by The Johns Hopkins Press.

Harris Isbell for personal communication.

Mrs. Katharine Jones, The Hogarth Press, and Basic Books, Inc. for  The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones. Copyright © 1953 by Ernest Jones, Basic Books, Inc., and The Hogarth Press Ltd., publishers.

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology for "Morphinism," by L. L. Stanley, November 1915, and "Dope Fiend Mythology," by Alfred R. Lindesmith, July-August 1940, both in  Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Copyright 1915, 1940 by the  Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (including the  American Journal of Police Science).

Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases for "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Side Effects and Complications," by Sidney Cohen, January 1960. Copyright © 1960 by The Williams & Wilkins Co.

Journal of Psychedelic Drugs for "LSD: Its Use, Abuse and Suggested Treatment," by David E. Smith and Alan J. Rose, and "Incidents Involving the Haight-Asbbury Population and Some Uncommonly Used Drugs," by Frederick H. Myers, Alan J. Rose, and David E. Smith, both published in Vol. 1, no. 2 (1967-68); "U.S. Marijuana Legislation and the Creation of a Social Problem," by Roger C. Smith, Vol. 2, no. 1 (1968); "The World of the Haight-Ashbury Speed Freak," by Roger C. Smith, and "An Introduction to Amphetamine Abuse," by John C. Kramer, both Vol. 2, no. 2 (1969); "The Changing Patterns of Heroin Addiction in the Haight-Ashbury Subculture," by Charles W. Sheppard, George R. Gay, and David E. Smith, Vol. 3, Spring ( 1971); Proceedings of the National Heroin Symposium, June 19-20, 1971, Vol. 4, issue 1 (1971). Copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971 by  Journal of Psychedelic Drugs.

The Journal of the American Medical Association for "Queries and Minor Notes," 1930; "A Study of the Promiscuous Use of the Barbiturates," by W. E. Hambourger, April 1937; "Federal Regulation of the Medicinal Use of Cannabis," May 1, 1937; "Report of Committee on Legislative Activities," June 26, 1937; "Marijuana: A Psychiatric Study " by Walter Bromberg, July 1, 1939; "The Marijuana Problem," by J. D. Reichard, June 24, 1944; "Drug-Induced Mood Changes in Man," by Louis Lasagna, John M. von Felsinger, and Henry K. Beecher, March 19, 1955; "Glue-Sniffing in Children," by, Helen H. Glaser and Oliver N. Massengale, July 28, 1962; Patterns of Hallucinogenic Drug Abuse," by Arnold M. Ludwig and Jerome Levine, January 11, 1965; "Caffeinism," by Hobart A. Reimann, December 18, 1967; "Characteristics of Drug Abusers Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital," by Leon J. Hekimian and Samuel Gershon, July 15, 1968; "Successful Treatment of '150 Criminal Addicts," by Vincent P. Dole, Marie E. Nyswander, and Alan Warner, December 16, 1968; "Institutionalization Patterns Among Civilly Committed Addicts," by John C. Kramer, June 23, 1969; "Halsted of Johns Hopkins, The Man and His Problem as Described in the Secret Records of William Osler," by Wilder Penfield, December 22, 1969; "Effects of LSD on Human Pregnancy," by William H. McGlothlin, Robert S. Sparkes, and David 0. Arnold, June 1, 1970; "Marijuana-Induced Hospitalization," by- George D. Lundberg, Janeth Adelson, and Eric H. Prosnitz, January 4, 1971; and "The British Narcotic 'Register' in 1970: A Factual Review," by Frederick B. Glaser and John C. Ball, May 17, 1971. Copyright 1930, 1937, 1939, 1944, © 1955, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by the American Medical Association.

The Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey for "Cannabis Indica in Pharmaceuticals," by Marty Sasman, 1938. Copyright 1938 by The Medical Society of New Jersey.

The Julian Press for  Psychology and the Great God Fun, by A. E. Hamilton. Copyright © 1955 by The Julian Press, Inc.

The Lancet for article by F. E. Tylecote, 1927; "Tobacco Smoking and Nicotine," by Lennox M. Johnston, December 19, 1942; "On the Therapeutic Uses and Toxic Effects of Cannabis Indica," by J. Russell Reynolds, March 22, 1970; and "Deaths in United Kingdom Opioid Users," by Ramon Gardner, September 26, 1970. Copy-right 1927, 1942, © 1970 by The Lancet Ltd.

Lange Medical Publications for  Handbook of Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment, 7th ed., Robert H. Dreisbach. Copyright © 1971 by Lange Medical Publications.

Jerome Levine for paper presented at National Association of Student Personnel Aministrators Drug Education Conference, November 7-8, 1966; unpublished.

Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc. for  LBI Facts Book 1970.

Alfred R. Lindesmith for  Opiate Addiction. Copyright 1947 by Alfred R. Lindesmith. Published by Principia Press.

Alfred R. Lindesmith for "Student Drug Use Viewed by a Sociologist," October 1968; unpublished.

J. B. Lippincott Company for  Marijuana, America's New Drug Problem, by Robert P. Walton. Copyright 1938 by J. B. Lippincott.

Little, Brown and Company for  The Mighty Leaf, by Jerome E. Brooks. Copyright 1952 by Little, Brown and Company.

E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. for  Public Health in the Nineteenth Century, by C. Fraser Brockington. Copyright © 1965 by E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd.

Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service for an article published in  Detroit News, June 4, 1970.

Edward J. Lynn for "Nitrous Oxide: It's a Gas!" presented at 124th Annual Meeting of American Psychiatric Association, 1971; unpublished,

William H. McGlothlin for "Toward a Rational View of Hallucinogenic Drugs," by William H. McGlothlin. Paper distributed at National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Drug Education Conference, November 7-8, 1966; unpublished.

McGraw-Hill Book Company for "The Rehabilitation of the Drug Addict," by George B. Wallace, published in  Journal of Educational Sociology, 1931. Quoted in Narcotics, edited by Daniel M. Wilner and Gene C. Kassebaum. Copyright © 1965 by Blakiston Division of McGraw-Hill Company.

Rand McNally & Company for  A Doctor Among the Addicts, by Nat Hentoff, Copyright © 1968 by Nat Hentoff; published by Rand McNally & Company.

The Macmillan Company for "Marijuana: A Sociological Overview,'' from  Outsiders by Howard S. Becker. Copyright © 1963 by The Free Press of Glencoe, a division of The Macmillan Company. Published in  The Marihuana Papers, edited by David Solomon. Copyright © 1966 by David Solomon. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., publisher.

The Macmillan Company for  The Peyote Religion, by J. S. Slotkin. Copyright © 1956 by The Free Press of Glencoe, a division of The Macmillan Company.

The Macmillan Company for  The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, by Louis S. Goodman and Alfred Gilman, editors, 3rd edition (1965) and 4th edition (1970). Copyright © 1965, 1970 by The Macmillan Company.

The Macmillan Company for  Delinquency and Opportunity by Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin, cited in Preble and Casey, "Taking Care of business-The Heroin User's Life on the Street,"  International Journal of the Addictions, March 1969. COP),right © 1964 by The Free Press of Glencoe, a division of The Macmillan Company.

Nicolas Malleson for "Acute Adverse Reactions to LSD in Clinical and Experimental Use in the United Kingdom," provisional report, June 1969 unpublished. Later published in  The British Journal of Psychiatry, February 1971. Copyright © 1971 by Royal Medico-Psychological Association.

Medical Center Hospital of Vermont for  Progress and Care, August 1970.

Medical Economics for Physicians' Desk Reference to Pharmaceutical Specialties and Biologicals, 26th ed., 1972. Copyright (~) 1972 by Medical Economics Company.

The Medical Letter, October 3, 1969 and March 5, 1971. Copyright © 1969, 1971 by   The Medical Letter.

Medical Tribune, January 12, 1969, July 7, 1969 and October 10, 1969. Copyright 1969 by Medical Tribune, Inc. Reprinted by courtesy of  Medical Tribune.

Medical World News, September 19, 1969, and September 3, 1971. Copyright 1969, 1971 by  Medical World News.

The Medico-Legal Journal for "Drugs and Delinquency," February 11, 1965. Copyright © 1965 Medico-Legal Society,

Glen D. Mellinger for "The Psychotherapeutic Drug Scene in San Francisco," August 13, 1969; unpublished.

Mental Hygiene for "Pleasure and Deterioration from Narcotic Addiction," by Lawrence Kolb, 1925. Copyright 1925 by National Association for Mental Hygiene.

Ministry of National Health and Welfare of Canada for  Interim Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, 1970. Copyright © 1970 Information Canada, Ottawa.

Minnesota State Medical Association and Moses Barron for report to the Minnesota State Medical Society, by Moses Barron, August 25, 1921.

Narcotic Addiction Foundation of British Columbia for  History of Drug Addiction and Legislation in Canada by Ingeborg Paulus. Copyright © November 1966 by Narcotic Addiction Foundation of B.C.

George Nash for "The Phoenix House Program: The Results of a Two Year Follow-up," by George Nash, Dan Waldorf, Kay Foster, and Ann Kyllingstad, February 1971; unpublished.

National Observer for "Drug Program at $250 Million, Deemed a Failure," by Owen Moritz, June 8, 1970. Copyright © 1970 Dow Jones Company, Inc.

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The authors are also grateful to the following persons for permission to quote from their papers, presented at the following conferences.

Vincent P. Dole and Frances R. Gearing for papers presented at First National Conference on Methadone Treatment, June 1968.

Michael M. Baden, William A. Bloom, Jr., Emmett P. Davis, Vincent P. Dole, Frances R. Gearing, Jerome H. Jaffe, Herbert Kleber, Mary Jane Kreek, Robert A. Maslansky, and Ray Trussell for papers presented at Second National Conference on Methadone Treatment, October 1969.

Saul Blatman, George Blinick, William A. Bloom, Jr., Dean V. Babst, Paul Cushman, Jr., Morton 1. Davidson, Frances R. Gearing, Avram Goldstein, Robert G. Newman, Gordon T. Stewart, and William F. Wieland for papers presented at Third National Conference on Methadone Treatment, November 1970.