Word: addictions
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TRAN KHUONG DAN Seeking a durable cure for opium addiction by becoming an addict himself...
...then set out on a cross-Vietnam journey with a single goal: to find a cure for opium addiction. He collected more than 100 herbal potions that villagers substituted for opium when their poppy crops failed and their supplies dwindled. Eventually, he decided on a drastic step: to addict himself to opium and experiment on himself. "I knew from my brother how dangerous this could be," he says, "but I decided this was the only...
Burroughs ended 15 years of heroin addiction by taking apomorphine and went on to write his first book Junky, published in 1953, about his years as an addict...
...read that this procedure would help curb postoperative pain. Not only did he do so, but he also gave me a morphine pump so I could administer my own pain medication. But most important, I was controlling a part of my recuperation. I didn't end up a drug addict, and was out of the hospital sooner than expected. LISA GONZALEZ Los Osos, Calif...
...more intense than in the treatment of children. Dr. Kathleen Foley, head of the pain service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, remembers an adolescent who was terminally ill. "The father didn't want his son on morphine because he was afraid the boy would become an addict," Foley recalls. In his grief over the imminent loss of his son, it seems, the father failed to see the absurdity of worrying about long-term addiction in a child who is dying in pain...