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...59many conditions undef which the drugs are used and this would call for extensivelaboratory studies and clinical investigations.I appreciate the opportunity to appear before this body and realize that thereis room for much difference of opinion on all these matters but have ;;oughtto identify the problems which would seem to require solution in connectionwith the proposal which is before you. Under emergency conditions the syntheticdrugs which we now have would fully replace the natural products in controlof pain and for other indications but under nonemergency conditions it wouldseem that the immediate reorientation of medical and pharmaceutical procedures,on the scale implied in the U.N. figures, would require a major effort althoughthere are strong indications that the long-term trend lies in this direction.[Exhibit No.5(b)]Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Henry Brill, Director, Pilgrim State(N.Y.) Hospital1906 Born Bridgeport, Conn.1928 Graduate Yale College.1932 Graduate Yale Medical School.1932-34 Medical intern Pilgrim State Hospital (recognized as basisfor Nat. Board Part III).1934 Licensed New York State (28727)1938 Diplomateof National Board (by exam) (6160).1938 Qualified psychiatrist, New York State.1940 Diplomate of American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry.1951 Fellow American Psychiatric Association.1957 Certified Mental Hospital Administrator (412)1934-50 Resident, Senior Psychiatrist, Clinical Director and AssociateDirector, Pilgrim State Hospital.1950-52 Director, Craig Colony and Hospital (epilepsy)1952-59 Assistant Commissioner for Reserach and Medical Services,Department of Mental Hygiene, New York.1958-64 (Director, Pilgrim State Hospital—on leave).1959-64 Deputy and First Deputy Commissioner, N.Y. State Departmentof Mental Hygiene (Special reference to ResearchTraining and Medical Services).1964-66 Director Pilgrim State Hospital.1966-68 Vice Chairman NY State Narcotic Addiction Controlmission (Director—on leave—P.S.H.).Com-1968 to date Director Pilgrim State Hospital.teaching1955-64 Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Professor—Psychiatry—AlbanyMedical College.1958-64 Professional lecturer—Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse.1958 to date Lecturer—Psychiatry—College of Physicians and Surgeons,Columbia University.1959 to date Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York School of Psychiatry.ORGANIZATIONAL1964-68Past President of American College of Neuropsychopharmacologyand of Eastern Psychiatric Research Association.Currently President-Elect American PsychopathologicalAssociation.Elected to Council of American Psychiatric Association;Council Representative to Committee on Mental HospitalStandards and Practices.EDITORIAL BOARD1948 to date Psychiatry Quarterly.1968 to date International Journal of Addictions.1969 to date Psychopharmacologia.1971 to date Comprehensive Psychiatry.