Psychiatric Consultations - Drug Use Among Youth
Original release: Roche Record Report, no #
Released
by Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Montreal, Canada, circa 1969
Producer: no credit
Liner notes: no credit
Participants: Dr L B McNally, Dr J R Unwin, Dr Noel Garneau, Dr Mark
Segal, "Jim"
Comments: Four
Montreal MDs and a young English Literature student shoot the breeze on the new
"drug culture" and its medical implications. Disappointingly sensible and factual with the token college kid
sounding as mature and distanced as the middle-aged doctors. About half of
it revolves around advise to family doctors and other medical staff (the
target audience for the LP) on how to meet and treat kids freaking out on
drugs, the other half deals more specifically with various street drugs,
impurities and antidotes, and could probably be used for samples. Some
interesting points are made and the general tone is surprisingly
drug-liberal; in fact marijuana use is described as essentially harmless,
and a prediction is made that weed & acid is going to be around for a
long time and the aim should be to learn about Use instead of Ab-use of
these substances.
Released by pharmaceutical company Roche as number 9 in their series of
"Psychiatric Consultations", the LP is too low-key to score many
points on the Incredibly Strange scale and works mainly for genre
completists. The fun stuff is all on side 2.
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LamaSivartDoz 2004