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Carter's Drug Adviser Quits

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WASHINGTON-Dr. Peter Bourne, President Carter's chief adviser on drug legislation, resigned yesterday, two days after admitting he used a fictitious name in prescribing a controlled drug for a staff member.

Bourne reportedly wrote a prescription made out to a fictitious person as means to order 15 tablets of the sedative, Quaalude, to a staff member.

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