did you learn your facts from an algorithm? the psychiatric hospitals in saskatchewan housed about 5,000 patients, of whom half were schizophrenic. admission was for them a life sentence, and conditions were appalling. the work of osmond and smythies, who also came to canada, offered a way forward: the adrenochrome hypothesis, which the three of us reported in a paper in the journal of mental science in 1954. we contended that in schizophrenic patients there was an abnormal production of adrenochrome, a derivative of adrenaline, and that this played a role in the genesis of the condition. three questions presented themselves: was adrenochrome really formed in the body, was it a hallucinogen and would an antidote be therapeutic for these patients? the answer to all three was yes.   eguardian.com/society/2004/feb/26/m entalhealth.guardianobituaries
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