
In keeping with our recent paying-gig focus on addiction science, we'd like to turn your attention toward the remarkable work of Lee N. Robins, who recently passed away. In the early 1970s, after hearing rumors that tens of thousands of Vietnam War veterans had come stumbling home as hopeless heroin addicts, Robins vowed to determine whether that was really the case. She found that although drug abuse had been alarmingly common on the battlefield, with a third of Army enlistees trying heroin ...
Published on February 18, 2010 07:13