[1] Born Marian Rita Weinbaum in Queens, New York, Fischman lived her early years in an apartment above her father's drugstore.
According to her obituary,The addicts she recruited for her experiments were given drugs, food, hospital rooms with sound and video equipment, and pay.
[1] According to Kleber, Fischman was "the first research scientist since Freud to use controlled scientific experiments with humans to directly examine cocaine's effects.
"[2] As co-director of one of the center's divisions, she managed five laboratories where studies were conducted to measure how patients changed physiologically and behaviorally when they were under the influence of drugs.
[2] She also expanded from her concentration on studying addiction and also tested drugs that were being designed to combat the effects of cocaine and heroin.