Dates

• Existence: 1910 - May 8, 1987 - 1987-05-08

Biographical Information

Sidney Cohen was born in New York City, New York, in 1910. He earned his PhD from Columbia University, and then went on to earn his MD from Bonn University in Germany. Throughout his life, he worked as Chief of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA, DIrector of the Division of Narcotic Addiction and Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Mental Health in Maryland, and was editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology. He passed away on May 8, 1987.

Sources: https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/cohen_sidney/cohen_sidney.shtml

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/17/obituaries/dr-sidney-cohen-76-dead-studied-mood-altering-drugs.html

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