MARIAN FISCHMAN, 62; PSYCHOLOGIST PAID DRUG USERS IN HER RESEARCH

Marian Fischman, 62, a psychologist who studied drug addiction in people
she paid to take heroin and cocaine, died of colon cancer Oct. 23 in New York.

Born in Queens, N.Y., she earned her successive psychology degrees at
Barnard College, Columbia University and the University of Chicago. Her
doctoral thesis examined the effects of methamphetamine on rhesus monkeys.

Later moving her research to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she
focused on human subjects, studying how cocaine users become increasingly
tolerant to larger doses. The addicts she recruited for her experiments
were given drugs, food, hospital rooms with sound and video equipment, and
pay. She also made an open offer to help any addict get treatment, but none
of her subjects accepted.

With her husband, Dr. Herbert Kleber, Fischman co-directed Columbia
University's substance abuse program from its inception in 1992. In
addition to studying addiction, she tested drugs designed to combat the
effects of cocaine and heroin.