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That's nonsense, says Robert Raffa, a pharmacology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. "Clearly there is potential for abuse," he admits. "But the idea that your mom will go into a hospital, be exposed to morphine and automatically become an addict is just plain wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CASE FOR MORPHINE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...such a cereal addict that it was really traumatizing for me," Williams says...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Soy to the World | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...former TV addict, at school I stick firmly by the 12-step method and try to take each day at a time. But in a rare moment of weakness over spring break, my resolve melted like nacho Velveeta cheese spread in the warm glow of the magic box, and I was sucked in once again to the wondrous world of "Extreme Sports," "MTV News" and "Scooby Doo" reruns. I felt almost sinful as I settled into my hypnotic televised trance. Equipped with an incredibly responsive remote, I swiftly became King Midas as every channel I clicked revealed yet another golden...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Do the Police Need to Advertise Too? | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

...toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL WE FOLLOW THE SHEEP? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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