Walter Reed Army Institute of Research WRAIR

Dr. David Mackenzie Rioch, a stem-faced, fundamentally benign man with dark bushy eyebrows, seemingly sensed that I might have been cast from a different mold. He was a relentlessly dedicated scientist who supervised my efforts at outpatient therapy for an hour each week. As civilian Chief of the Neuropsychiatry Division of the nearby Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Rioch had a prestigious and well-earned international reputation. 

In 1969, we recommended long-term reevaluation of our subjects. But it wasn t until 1980 that LTC David McFarling at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) published a comprehensive follow-up of Edgewood volunteers who had received LSD. The results, discussed in detail later in this book, failed to demonstrate any clear-cut, long-term adverse medical or psychiatric effects. 

The Army didn t act to shield itself from further criticism until the mid-1970s, when Congress began to feel increasing pressure from critics. Only then, did its members request a systematic search for possible after effects in former LSD volunteers. Lieutenant Colonel David A. McFarling, MD, a psychiatrist assigned to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in DC, accepted the task. He designed a comprehensive follow-up study of all volunteers who had received LSD under Chemical Corps auspices. In October 1980, the US Army Medical Department, US Army Health Services Command, published his report. 

As my time at Stanford was approaching an end, my old boss Joe Blair at Edgewood and my mentor David Rioch at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) simultaneously requested my assignment to their installations. Both apparently believed (incorrectly) that my competence had somehow been enhanced by my 24-month sojourn in the magic halls of academe. 

US Army Medical Research Detachment at Brooks AFB can provide assistance in the medical effects, symptoms, and treatment of both laser and radiofrequency injuries. This detachment is part of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). 

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) NBC, Lasers, RF Army 8-10... 

We would like to thank Drs. Robert Engle, Jean Karle, Dennis Kyle, Wil Milhous and Robert Miller of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research for their advice and collaborations in preceding years, members of the Medicinal Chemistry Department (University of Mississippi), and Dr. James D. McChesney (NaPro Biotherapeutics). Support of this work was funded by the Department of Defense USAAMRDC (WRAIR), UNDPAVorld Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), NIAID, and the University of Mississippi Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 

WRAIR - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. 

We thank Dr. Walter Mertz (Chief, Dept, of Biological Chemistry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) for making available to us his extensive knowledge of the biochemistry of metals. We are indebted to Col. Edward C. Knoblock (Director, Div. of Biochemistry, WRAIR) for continued encouragement and support. Financial support provided by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command is gratefully acknowledged (Contract No. DA-49-193-MD-2444). 

The WRAIR Program - In our 1967 report we summarized the extensive program sponsored by the Department of the Army In the Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Walter Reed Am Institute of Research. Unfortunately the publication of quantitative pharmacological data by HRAIR has been delayed. Data for specific compounds may be obtained from those participants who prepared them for evaluation by WRAIR. The data given to participants Include LD s and 30-day survival data (mouse test). Human tolerance studies for some compounds are planned. 

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