MAN SUSPECTED OF HEROIN USE IN STUDY

A former professor at John Jay College In New York was arrested Monday on
federal theft charges that accuse him of personally experimenting with
heroin while conducting a federally funded heroin study.

Ansley Hamid, 55, was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bond after a brief
court appearance.

"It's ridiculous," Hamid said outside court. "One day the story will get
out, the whole story."

Hamid allegedly used heroin after he was awarded a $2.6 million research
grant in June 1996 to study "the developmental cycle of heroin use in New
York City from 1995 to 2000."

A federal criminal complaint filed against Hamid accused him of
experimenting with heroin after accepting money for the research grant while
he worked at the college between June 1996 and November 1997.

Hamid allegedly wrote project field notes in October 1996, saying,
"Yesterday ended my month-long experiment with ... heroin use." When later
confronted by an investigator, Hamid admitted he had experimented with
heroin for a month.