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...report by experts at Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes, according to some estimates. And that's just in France. Says...
...Without any sort of outside help or intervention, quitting the drug becomes arduously difficult. Especially since prolonged use can lead to severe psychosis. "Basically," says Dr. Lin, "they go crazy." In the meantime, for societies grappling with this crisis, many debilitating side effects result from hosting large addict populations, including spiking crime rates, larger numbers of absentee fathers, higher HIV infection rates and increasing domestic abuse. Undoing the damage could take the rest of the decade, and if the American experience of fighting a prolonged battle against drugs is any example, the war may never be totally won. More likely...
...Asia's medical and psychiatric infrastructure is already being overwhelmed by the number of drug addicts, particularly meth abusers, who are crashing and seeking help. But in most of the region, counseling facilities are scarce and recovery from drug addiction is still viewed as a matter of willpower and discipline rather than a tenuous and slow spiritual and psychological rebuilding process. When it comes to methamphetamine addiction, where the brain goes through physiological changes that leave the abstinent addict clinically depressed because of depleted serotonin levels, recovery programs and rehab centers become a crucial way station between addiction and sobriety...
...role in "Erin Brockovich," the other is that Calista Flockhart will never eat her young), Laura Linney ("lovely, leggy Laura Linney" as she's known among heterosexual males who work in the New York theater, where she got her start), Ellen Burstyn (brilliant performance as a drug addict in "Requiem For a Dream"; wonder if Robert Downey Jr. will be at the Oscars), Juliette Binoche, Joan Allen (want to go back to sleep but can't; confused at the idea of heterosexual males in the New York theater...
Gloria van Winkle, on the other hand, is white and a cocaine addict. She is also a mother, however, and she probably hasn't visited Harvard either. She has two drug possession convictions and was recently caught with $40 worth of cocaine. Under Kansas' three-strikes law, she is officially "out": now serving life in prison...