Nominations: hearing before the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session on Peter G. Bourne, of the District of Colombia, to be Director, Office of Drug Abuse Policy and Lee I. Dogoloff, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director, Office of Drug Abuse Policy, May 13, 1977

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 242 pages

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Page 167 - I now think it is the most dangerous drug we must contend with— for the following reasons: 1) Its early use is beguiling. It gives the illusion of feeling good. The user is not aware of the beginning loss of mental functioning. I have never seen an exception to the observation that marijuana impairs the user's ability to judge the loss of his own mental functioning. 2) After one to three years of continuous use the ability to think has become so impaired that pathological forms of thinking begin...
Page 43 - Congress with respect to policies for, objectives of, and establishment of priorities for, Federal functions relating to refugee admission and resettlement in the United States; and (9) reviewing the regulations, guidelines, requirements, criteria, and procedures of Federal departments and agencies...
Page 10 - The Chimpanzee as an Animal Model for Investigating Alcoholism,
Page 184 - The experienced clinician observes in many of these individuals personality changes that seem to grow subtly over long periods of time: diminished drive, lessened ambition, decreased motivation, apathy, shortened attention span, distractibility, poor judgment, impaired communication skills, loss of effectiveness, introversion, magical thinking, derealization and depersonalization, diminished capacity to carry out complex plans and prepare realistically for the future, a peculiar fragmentation in...
Page 172 - Jamaica ° 7 in the West Indies where the effects of cannabis had been thought to be relatively benign: among the middle class it is now found to be associated with school dropouts, transient phychoses, panic states, and adolescent behavior disorders.
Page 28 - Report prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
Page 178 - This group is singled out because of the unusual degree of sexual promiscuity, which ranged from sexual relations with several individuals of the opposite sex to relations with individuals of the same sex, individuals of both sexes on the same evening. In the histories of all of these individuals, we were struck by the loss of sexual inhibitions after short periods of marihuana smoking.
Page 162 - The damage done was described as "precancerous." (7) Chronic cannabis use results in deterioration of mental functioning, pathological forms of thinking resembling paranoia, and "a massive and chronic passivity" and lack of motivation — the so-called "amotivational syndrome.
Page 166 - I am also chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of...
Page 98 - College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.

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