Word: addictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...range of activities to fill the void in a patient's life left by withdrawal. Phoenix House, one of the nation's largest community therapeutic programs, with facilities in New York and California, relies on rough-and-tumble group-encounter sessions that have proved effective in reshaping an addict's attitudes. Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, president of Phoenix House, says lying and rationalizations are a big part of being a drug abuser, and "the encounter enables him to see himself as he really is." For the 20% who stay for the full two-year program, the success rate as measured five...
Whatever the type of treatment they receive, recovering addicts need follow-up care and counseling, sometimes for as long as five years, to make sure they stay clean. A major treatment problem is to convince an addict that one resumption of drug use does not mean he will never shake his habit. Many recovering addicts do not stay in touch with follow-up programs, so no one knows whether or how long they stay off drugs. Thus the success of treatment programs is hard to measure. Though some claim success rates as high as 80%, Dr. Sidney Cohen, professor...
...that are ever present -- from nuclear holocaust to world hunger to environmental disaster -- seem to obsess the national consciousness in cycles. Perhaps it is the sheer insidiousness of crack, the newly popular, highly potent form of cocaine that can in short order transform the casual pleasure seeker into an addict. Perhaps it is the perception that drugs have spread into the workplace and the neighborhood, that they have arrived like the wolf at the door, or at least next door...
Heroin abuse has stabilized at half a million users, about the same number as 15 years ago. That is still a tragically high number, but the heroin-addict population is aging. The NIDA reports there are relatively few new heroin users...
...enough to guarantee a single user two or three blissful joyrides. Coke sniffers so constrict their nasal passages that they can no longer snort the stuff, while heroin users must constantly search for new veins to pop. The only limit on the amount of crack an addict can use is the amount he has. "There is no such thing as saving crack," says Dr. Herbert Kleber of Yale Medical School. "You use what you have...