Pubdate: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 Source: Orange County Register (CA) Copyright: 1999 The Orange County Register Contact: http://www.ocregister.com/ 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D