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This declassified quarterly report covers July 1 to September 30, 1953. It comes from the NIMH Addiction Research Center at the PHS Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, and was signed by Director of Research Harris Isbell. It describes clinical, biochemical, neurophysiological and psychological studies of addiction, including trials of codeine substitutes, morphine and Nalline mixtures, meperidine addiction, and chronic LSD-25 intoxication, which produced rapid tolerance. It also lists the unit's publications, lectures and film showings. It does not discuss UFOs.
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occupation, geographical location, stated reason for addiction, other drugs used, etc. In addition to surveying the records, the psychiatric staff of the hospital will undertake intensive case studies of a number of meperidine addicts. The NINH Addiction Research Center's part of the program is to establish the presence of physical dependence in "primary" addicts and to study meperidine addiction in dogs. The method for proving that abstinence occurs in "primary" meperidine addicts utilizes the standard technique of Himmelsbach. Patients with histories of addiction to meperidine but of addiction to no other drug are selected for study. These patients are stabilized on meperidine for a period of 7 to 10 days, then the meperidine is abruptly withdrawn, and observations for signs of abstinence are carried out. At the height of abstinence from meperidine, doses of meperidine are to be administered and the relief of withdrawal symptoms observed. Where possible, attempted precipitation of abstinence from meperidine with Nalline will be carried out. Confirmation of the patient's story of addiction to meperidine only is necessary for inclusion in the series, and will be obtained by interviewing or writing to the patient's relatives and physician. To date, suitable patients have been studied. All showed very definite abstinence on withdrawal of meperidine. Toxic manifestations, while Declassified by ___187475___ date ___ 4 FEB 1977 A-61
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 24 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.