The Nation - News from April 17, 1988

As prosecutors speculated the problem “is more widespread than we think,” a drug therapy researcher was indicted on charges of falsifying medical research, the first such indictments in a federal court. Dr. Stephen H. Breuning, 35, director of psychological services at the Polk Center in Polk, Pa., was charged with submitting phony research studies when he applied in 1983 for two grants. His attorney denied the charges. Breuning’s research involved at least seven studies that he claimed he conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, showing that Ritalin and Dexadrene were helpful in controlling hyperactive retarded children with fewer adverse side effects than other drugs.