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 b0red5tiff
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 A career in cigarettes and LSD
#8405249 - 05/15/08 12:59 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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MURRAY Jarvik, a psychopharmacologist, was among the first to study the hallucinogen LSD and later helped develop the nicotine patch.
In 1953, soon after gaining his doctorate in psychology, Jarvik joined the psychiatry department of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, to study an unknown substance called d-lysergic acid, a psychotropic drug discovered in 1943 by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. Jarvik advertised for volunteers to try the drug.
It would be revealed later that the funds for his research had come from the Central Intelligence Agency, which was looking for chemical agents to use as truth serums in the Cold War. The results of his experiments contributed to some of the first published work on the drug's perceptual and physiological effects.
At Mount Sinai he met his wife, Lissy, a heavy smoker. He thought smoking harmful and was amazed it was so hard for her to quit. By the time the surgeon-general's report on the wages of smoking appeared in 1964, he was already trying to discover why people smoked.
Jarvik moved to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, as an assistant professor in psychopharmacology, where he taught monkeys to smoke. In 1970 he published a seminal paper asserting smoking was an addiction and nicotine a prime factor.
In 1972 Jarvik moved to the University of California, Los Angeles. In the 1980s, he looked into quelling the addiction with a nicotine patch. He and co-researchers reported that nicotine could be absorbed through the skin; a nicotine patch patent was granted in 1990.
Murray Elias Jarvik was born in the Bronx. His father, Jacob, was an upholsterer. His lifelong battle with heart problems was brought on by a bout of rheumatic fever at 12. As a student at George Washington High School he and a classmate won a science competition with a working model of an iron lung. He developed polio himself when he was 28. Jarvik received a master's degree in science at the University of California, then his doctorate, and a medical degree. He survived lung cancer, although he never smoked. He did take LSD.
He is survived by his wife, Lissy, sons Jerry and Laurence, and three grandchildren.
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elaspeinreason
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Re: A career in cigarettes and LSD [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8405281 - 05/15/08 01:06 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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travel well Mr. Jarvik.
a pioneer , a professor , a psychonaut.
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andrewss
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Cool story...  
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 PsilocybinMike
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He developed lung cansr after trying to help his wife quit for so long and never smoking himself?
Damn.
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PreyToGod
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noble life. you did well and left your mark, good score.
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Re: A career in cigarettes and LSD [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8405411 - 05/15/08 01:42 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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RIP Dr. Jarvik.
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ClammyJoe
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Re: A career in cigarettes and LSD [Re: ToiletDuk]
#8405504 - 05/15/08 02:12 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Didn't he also create the first artificial heart?
Edited by ClammyJoe (05/15/08 02:12 PM)
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Robert Jarvik
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Re: A career in cigarettes and LSD [Re: ClammyJoe]
#8405970 - 05/15/08 04:28 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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No, that was me.
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Re: A career in cigarettes and LSD [Re: Robert Jarvik]
#8406154 - 05/15/08 05:23 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, down the block from me. Very cool. Smoke Monkey Smoke!!! I actually quit cigs 55 days ago after smoking for 20 years!! WOO HOO I did try the patch but was allergic.. go Jarvik!
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