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Sometimes serendipity plays a role in discovering a new approach to a familiar disease. Last summer a 42-year-old drug addict, unable to talk, bent over and hardly able to move, was brought to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. His symptoms were similiar to those of patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which usually affects the elderly. Dr. William Langston speculated that the cause might be something in the heroin that the victim used. The doctor and his team were able to track down others who had used the same batch of the drug and found similar reactions...
...have this friend that is a drug addict. She is always looking for someone to buy her drugs...I don't let her take anything when she is with my other friends. I hope that one of these days she gets off drugs...
...play which give it such emotional impact Long Day's Journey ...is a play in four acts that traces the development of the Tyrone family through agonizing dialogues between the four characters during one day Events of the past are highlighted through solitary confessions from the drug-addict mother, the Irish actor father, the tubercular younger son and the bitter and cynical older...
...addict, I find the problem is beyond a cure. People like me cannot be rehabilitated to enjoy a few hours of social watching just as an alcoholic cannot reform to the point where he can drink socially. The only remedy is not to watch television...
...lawyer who is also a chocolate addict [July 12], I was intrigued by Anthropologist Jennie Keith's suggestion that chocolate may be used to get someone in your power. If this is true, the possibilities are limitless. Rather than arming myself with lawbooks and briefs the next time I must face a hostile opposing counsel, grumpy judge of recalcitrant witness, I might just fill my briefcase with Hersey Golden Almond bars...