The Chronicle: 10/25/2002: Crossing the Line: A Heroin Researcher Partakes and Pays the Price

Years later, while Mr. Hamid doesn't dwell on his experiment -- referring to it euphemistically as "the field note" -- he doesn't shy away from defending it. "Name me one researcher who hasn't done that," he says. "Isn't that what Marie Curie did with radium? Isn't that what Albert Hoffman did with LSD? You stick your finger in it and put it in your mouth."