Obituary: Ronald Siegel, a UCLA researcher, dedicated his life to studying how and why people get high. As for himself, he wasn’t eager to freak out. He recommended running.
Ronald K. Siegel figured his intense interest in drugs might have been sparked by a childhood visit to a dentist who sent him on a trip fueled by nitrous oxide, or laughing gas.
Though he occasionally sampled drugs in the name of research, Dr. Siegel wasn’t eager to freak out. Unlike the Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, he didn’t urge people to ’’turn on, tune in, drop out.” Instead, he sought to understand why people used or abused alcohol, cocaine and other intoxicants—and what happened to them afterward.
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