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| Author: | Pohl, Frederik |
| Title: | What to do until the analyst comes |
| In: | Alternating Currents |
| Publisher: | Ballantine Books, New York |
| Pages: | 143-154 |
| Date: | 1956 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as panaceas |
| Annotation:Narrator is an advertising man who tells how, after a cigarettes-and-lung-cancer scare, researchers discover a cheap, allegedly harmless and non-addictive euphoric drug, and it goes on the market in chewing-gum form as a replacement for cigarettes. Soon everyone is chewing Cheery-Gum except the narrator, who is allergic to it; and though the drug is theoretically non-addictive, it makes everyone so high that no one wants to give it up—leading to a dazed and tranquilized society in which everyone is euphoric and indolent and everyone maintains that he could kick the Cheery-Gum habit on a moment's notice. if he had any reason to do so—which he doesn't. | |
| Author: | Slesar, Henry |
| Title: | I remember oblivion |
| Journal: | Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 30, No. 3, 36-43 |
| Publisher: | Mercury Press, New York |
| Date: | March 1966 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:A technique has been devised for literal brainwashing of criminals, i.e., the total eradication through chemo-therapy of memory, and the reconstruction, using drugs and "narco-hypnosis," of a new non-criminal personality within the existing body. The narrative cuts from the conversation of two scientists using the technique to the stream-of-consciousness of a rehabilitated criminal who, breaking through his conditioning, regains access to his memories and commits suicide in his guilt. | |
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