The decade of the 1960s began the current era of heavy drug use in America, beginning perhaps with Timothy Leary’s Pied Piper invitation to, “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” (with psychedelic drugs). While fortunately most youths who experimented did not suffer lasting damage, those of us on the mental health front lines at the time saw a number of casualties (Kleber 1967). Eventually, the hippies and the LSD-fueled “Summer of Love” in San Francisco were replaced by motorcycle gangs, amphetamines, and gratuitous violence. Psychedelic drugs receded into a permanent background of US drug use, never going away altogether, but not reaching the same penetration.
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