April 1973-August 1973
Mick Maurer in Baltimore, MD
Bon Secours Hospital
2000 West Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21223
Johns Hopkins University, Bon Secours Hospital, Fort Meade, Washington, DC
Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus
Jerry Carter was in Mick Maurer's  Neuropsych class at
USA MFSS and at Johns Hopkins
Carl was also in our class at Johns Hopkins
The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Johns Hopkins offers its main undergraduate and graduate programs at the Homewood campus in Baltimore and maintains full-time campuses in
German university model developed by Alexander von Humboldt and Friedrich Schleiermacher.

Johns Hopkins was the first American research university, and the first American university to teach through seminars, instead of solely through
lectures. The university was the first in America to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts curriculum) and the first American
university to grant doctoral degrees. Johns Hopkins was a model for most large research universities in the United States, particularly the University
of Chicago.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The School of Public Hygiene, founded in 1916, is the first and largest public health school in the world. Founded in 1916 by William H. Welch and
John D. Rockefeller, it is the largest public health school in the world, with 470 full-time and 550 part-time faculty, and 1,800 students from 71
countries. It receives nearly one-quarter of all federal research funds awarded to the 32 U.S. schools of public health, and has research ongoing in
the U.S. and more than 50 countries. It has consistently been ranked the number one school of public health by U.S. News & World Report.

The school is composed of ten different academic departments: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences,
Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management, International Health, Mental Health, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Population and Family
Health Sciences, and Behavior and Health.

The school was recently renamed after a major donation by Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City.

Baltimore: The city is named after the founding proprietor of the Maryland Colony, Lord Baltimore in the Irish House of Lords. Baltimore took his title
from Baltimore in County Longford in Ireland, which is the English transliteration of the Irish language Baile an Tí Mór, or "Townland of the big house".
Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, a director at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, has been angry with the Food and
Drug Administration and talking himself hoarse about it for nearly 34 years. He has condemned dozens of
high-priced medicines and denounced their makers. He has castigated state medical boards and railed about
rates for Caesarean sections. He has sought to ban unpasteurized milk and some herbal supplements.
He grew up in Cleveland and went to Cornell and Case Western Reserve University for medical school, then
joined the National Institutes of Health in 1966 to avoid the Vietnam War.

In 1971, he discovered that intravenous drugs being made by Abbott Laboratories were contaminated. Patients
were dying from the infections that resulted. The F.D.A. had decided to allow the contaminated products to
continue to be sold, instructing hospitals to disconnect the fluids at the first sign of infection. He was incensed.
He had met Ralph Nader, and the two wrote a letter insisting that the F.D.A. force the drugs' withdrawal. The two
gave the letter to every major news organization. Within days, Abbott announced a recall. Dr. Wolfe started getting
calls on other issues. He was hooked. He proposed that he and Mr. Nader begin a health research group, the
first specialty group within Public Citizen.
Psychodrama is a form of drama therapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. It is a group working method, in
which each person becomes a therapeutic agent for others in the psychodrama group. Developed by Jacob L. Moreno, psychodrama
has strong elements of theater, often conducted on a stage with props.
Psychodrama employs guided dramatic action to examine problems or issues raised by an individual (psychodrama) or a group
(sociodrama). Using experiential methods, sociometry, role theory, and group dynamics, psychodrama facilitates insight, personal
growth, and integration on cognitive, affective, and behavioral levels. It clarifies issues, increases physical and emotional well being,
enhances learning and develops new skills.

The basic elements (operational components) of psychodrama
* The protagonist: Person(s) selected to "represent theme" of group in the drama.
* The auxiliary egos: Group members who assume the roles of significant others in the drama
* The audience: Group members who witness the drama and represent the world at large.
* The stage: The physical space in which the drama is conducted
* The director: The trained psychodramatist who guides participants through each phase of the session.

The three distinct phases of classical psychodrama
1.  The warm-up: The group theme is identified and a protagonist is selected.
2. The action: The problem is dramatized and the protagonist explores new methods of resolving it.
3. The sharing: Group members are invited to express their connection with the   protagonist's work.

Psychodrama affords participants a safe, supportive environment in which to practice new and more effective roles and
behaviors.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Founder of the Transcendental Meditation program

Alternatives forms of therapy were also presented
by Johns Hopkins faculty, as was AA and antabuse.
Bill W. and Dr. Bob Started Alcoholics Anonymous
SUNY-Stony Brook. Close by the
historic village of Stony Brook at
the geographic midpoint of Long
Island, the University campus lies
about 60 miles east of Manhattan
and 60 miles west of Montauk
Point. It is only a short distance to
nearby.
Beth Israel Medical Center has
been serving New Yorkers since
1889. From those early days on
the Lower East Side, BIMC has
grown into one of the largest
providers of inpatient care in the
state. With over 1,300 beds,
nurses are vital. As the patients’
primary contacts, nurses help
explain conditions and
treatments, while preparing
patients to care for themselves
outside the hospital.
Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, a lawyer and psychiatrist who gained notoriety for founding
a drug treatment program (Odyssey House) in New York and went on to give widely quoted
but sometimes disputed testimony on subjects like child abuse and pornography.

In 1966, Dr. Densen-Gerber founded Odyssey House, one of the earlier drug-free
therapeutic communities that helped addicts recover. She was a leading advocate of such
programs, which involved group residence and group therapy, as opposed to
methadone-maintenance programs.

She got to know Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller when she picketed in front of his house to
demand funds for her program, and they became friends. In the 1970's she became a
conspicuous figure at public hearings, society balls and ghetto demonstrations with her
bouffant hairdo, rhinestone-studded glasses and cigars.

She graduated from Columbia Law School and New York University Medical School. She
did her residency at Metropolitan Hospital, where during one of her pregnancies, the
director suggested she spend an hour or two a day working with addicts. That led to her
assembling, in 1966, a group of addicts who wanted to cure themselves without using
drugs. Before she found a home for them, they slept in 11 temporary shelters, giving rise
to the name Odyssey.
First time in NYC was in
1973 first to attend the
Beth Israel Conference,
and then the Stony
Brook Conference.
Mick Maurer's  practicum for
the Alcoholism Counselor
training program at Johns
Hopkins was in the ER at Bon
Secours Hospital.
Some of the major topics we were exposed to at Johns Hopkins in 1973.
Fort Meade Maryland
One visit in 1973 by Mick Maurer was to visit his uncle Larry Morgan's
family in the Germantown area of Philadelphia (his first trip to Philly).  
Another first in his visit was to run in a subway and to attend the
Barnum & Bailey Circus
The Orioles are the former St. Louis Brown's
Mick Maurer attended a conference
on Methadone Maintenance at Beth
Isreal in  1973
Mick Maurer attended a confernce on Adolescene Drug Abuse in
the 1970's at SUNY-Stony Brook University in 1973.
First show I saw on Broadway in May 1973
at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York.
Many trips were made in 1973
to Washington, DC.  The
training at Johns Hopkins
University concluded with
attended at the National Drug
Abuse Conference in DC.
Brezhnev was visiting Nixon in 1973