Word: brecher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fascinated by their response, Alsop asked Science Writer Edward Brecher, author of Licit and Illicit Drugs (Consumers Union, 1972), if doctors had studied this problem. Brecher, whose book describes tobacco as "one of the most physiologically damaging substances used by man," cited serious psychiatric and metabolic reports on the subject. For many smokers, psychological needs combine with nicotine addiction to produce a powerful dependency. Beyond that, he could empathize with Alsop. Brecher gave up cigarettes for 14 months, but started smoking again when he found that he simply could not work without them...
...John Brecher, editor-in-chief of The Spectator, said that he has agreed to pay off the phone bill debt by late January with alumni contributions. So far, the paper has received $5000 from alumni...
...knew what happens if we don's get money, Brecher said. "The question never came...
...drug abuse, typify the growing controversy over methadone as a substitute for heroin. Last week, in a book that may help to resolve the controversy, Consumers Union came out strongly on the Dole side of the argument. Licit and Illicit Drugs, a five-year study by Medical Writer Edward Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports (Little, Brown; $12.50), advocates legalizing marijuana, supplying heroin, opium and morphine to some addicts on an experimental basis, and providing methadone maintenance-legal administration of methadone to heroin users-for every drug abuser who asks...
Editor-in-chief John Brecher called these terms prohibitive, and added that he hopes alumni and others "realize the value of an independent press and will come through...