Background
Margaret Kreig was born on January 11, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois.
(Green Medicine. In this 1964 volume, Margaret Kreig tells...)
Green Medicine. In this 1964 volume, Margaret Kreig tells true tales of discovery that resulted in some of our most vital medicines. Much of the book is based on the actual unpublished field journals of the scientists involved.
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1964
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Margaret Kreig was born on January 11, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois.
In the 1970s Kreig received a degree in rehabilitation counseling and gained a license in psychology.
Kreig is best remembered for her reports concerning medicine, substance abuse, and various women’s issues. She wrote exposes on natural remedies as well as drug abuse among middle-class youth. Kreig had a varied career, including a stint as a model after serving briefly during World War II in the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. She began research work in the late 1940s and early 1950s with a look at drug abuse. For a time she worked at a drug treatment facility in Lexington, Kentucky.
In an article that appeared in Kiwanis Magazine in 1950, Kreig contended that middle-class youth, not just lower-income youth, were using drugs in considerable numbers. In the late 1950s, she worked as a public relations consultant to pharmaceutical and other manufacturing firms. She also was a staff writer and associate editor at Parents’ Magazine. Her first book. Green Medicine: The Search for Plants That Heal, was published in 1964 and included information she culled from four years of research. The volume discussed the efforts being made by scientific researchers to find natural remedies through the use of modern laboratories as well as in places like the rain forest.
Three years later, Kreig issued Black Market Medicine, which focused on counterfeit prescription medications sold through organized crime rings. To research the topic she went undercover with the help of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Among the other subjects she addressed, were seat belts, women issues in regard to military service, and various consumer products. In 1973 she issued The Healing Herbs.
During her career, Kreig also worked as a ghostwriter of other books, contributed to various magazines, wrote murder mysteries, and penned televisions scripts featuring true crime stories. She was a public relations consultant to pharmaceutical and other manufacturing companies and was a staff writer and editor at Parents' Magazine. Sometimes using the pen name Peggy Craig.
Kreig died of lung cancer on January 12, 1998, in Washington, DC.
Kreig's best-seller, "Green Medicine," gave compelling examples about how scientists were searching for natural remedies from remote rain forests to modern laboratories to heal various ailments. The book won an international success and translated into many languages.
One of Kreig's greatest challenges was trying to show during the late 1940s and early 1950s that middle-class youth, and not just lower-income youth, were abusing narcotics in significant numbers. With the help of authorities at a federal drug-treatment center in Lexington. Mrs. Kreig finally broke the story in a series of articles published in Kiwanis Magazine in 1950.
(Green Medicine. In this 1964 volume, Margaret Kreig tells...)
1964
Margaret Theresa Baltzell married Albert Arthur Kreig on April 28, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois. They had three sons. This marriage ended in divorce.
