Harris Isbell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harris Isbell

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1910

Place of Birth: Arkansas, United States

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1994

Profession: physician, pharmacologist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Harris Isbell (June 7, 1910 – December 23, 1994) was an American pharmacologist and the director of research for the NIMH Addiction Research Center at the Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky from 1945 to 1963.
He did extensive research on the physical and psychological effects of various drugs on humans (imprisoned narcotics offenders, see below).
Early work investigated aspects of physical dependence (an important aspect of drug addiction) with opiates and barbiturates, while later work (at least partially funded by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of the MKUltra project) investigated psychedelic drugs, including LSD.
The research was extensively reported in academic journals such as the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Psychopharmacologia, and the AMA Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry.