Divorced and with no health insurance, Francesca Capasso felt hopeless. Read more...

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Couresty of Francesca Capasso
Francesca Capasso and her “angel” Lori Viveros, director of Avon Cares for Life.

For a Nobel Prize winner, Richard Heck seems to lead a relatively normal life. The 79-year-old UCLA alumnus and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware is retired and currently lives in the Philippines with his wife. Read more...

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Richard Heck

After the discovery of a polyp in her colon in 2001, Pamela Sakuda underwent numerous biopsies and a surgery only to receive news she had stage four, metastatic colon cancer. Read more...

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Norbert Litzinger and his wife Pamela Sakuda are shown just hours before her death on Nov. 10, 2006. Sakuda was a patient in a psilocybin research study for terminally ill cancer patients with anxiety.

courtesy of NORBERT LITZINGER

As an undergraduate at UCLA, Adi Jaffe became addicted to methamphetamine and alcohol. Read more...

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Psychology graduate student and former addict Adi Jaffe created a website with a feature to help addicts find rehabilitation centers that best suit them.

Rising to great prominence in the 1960s, hallucinogenic drug use has created an influential counter-culture that has helped fuel its recreational use into the new century. Especially in college surroundings where students are suddenly thrust into an independent and experimental environment, the use of such "psychedelic drugs" has continued to be a means of recreation. According to a 2008 U.S. Read more...