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Pain, Pseudoaddiction Caused Howard Hughes' Eccentric Behavior, Lifestyle, Says Dr. Forest Tennant, One of Nation's Top Drug Abuse, Pain Treatment Authorities
August 31st, 2007
Dr. Forest Tennant, one of the nation's leading drug abuse and pain treatment authorities and a medical witness called by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to testify nearly 30 years ago at the medical trial following the death of billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes, has reevaluated his own medical data collection three decades later. He has determined that, despite previously accepted theories, much of Hughes' eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle was a direct result of intractable pain from his now-famous devastating airplane crash in 1946-in which he fractured his jaw and neck and received third-degree burns-and his own self-prescribed attempts to alleviate that pain as...
Source: Drug Week (2007-08-31)
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