Harris Isbell

Harris Isbell
Born(1910-06-07)June 7, 1910
Arkansas
DiedDecember 23, 1994(1994-12-23) (aged 84)
Lexington, Kentucky
Parents
  • Francis Taylor Isbell (father)
  • Celeste Mathews (mother)

Harris Isbell (June 7, 1910 – December 23, 1994) was an American pharmacologist and the director of research for the NIMH Addiction Research Center at the Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky from 1945 to 1963. He did extensive research on the physical and psychological effects of various drugs on humans (imprisoned narcotics offenders, see below). Early work investigated aspects of physical dependence (an important aspect of drug addiction) with opiates and barbiturates, while later work (at least partially funded by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of the MKUltra project)[1][2][3][4] investigated psychedelic drugs, including LSD. The research was extensively reported in academic journals such as the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Psychopharmacologia, and the AMA Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry.

  1. ^ Marks JD. 1991. The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate". W.W. Norton.
  2. ^ Lee, MA. 1994. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD. Grove Press.
  3. ^ Campbell ND, Olsen JP, Walden L. 2008. The Narcotics Farm. Harry N. Abrams.
  4. ^ "Private Institutions Used In C.I.A. Effort To Control Behavior. 25-Year, $25 Million Program". The New York Times. August 2, 1977. Retrieved 2014-07-30.