Adjunctive Role for Heroin and LSD in Terminal Care
Doctors at a Columbia symposium discuss adjunctive use of mind altering drugs for terminal illness patients. Heroin and LSD are reported in Britain and Baltimore programs to ease pain, appetite loss, mood, and cooperation in final days while stressing these are not universal solutions and must not replace humane care.
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Lawrence K. Altman
N.Y.T
Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons
Baltimore
London
Britain
Henry O. Heinemann
Cornell University College of Medicine
Bruce L. Dante
Wayne State University
Detroit
Leo. E. Hollister
Stanford University
Veterans Administration Hospital
Palo Alto
Calif
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Chicago
R. G. Twycross
Cicely Saunders
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Twycross
Austin H. Kutscher
Foundation of Thanatology
Foundation
Kutscher
Sinai Hospital
Stanislav Grof
Walter N. Pahnke
Louis E. Goodman
Albert A. Kurland
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
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