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...bases of their addiction and treat them accordingly. "We are still trying to map out these neurochemical systems," says Edgehill Newport's Wallace. "If we succeed, then it is likely that we will be able to design treatments." A.A. and other groups may always be necessary to help alcoholics assess the psychological and emotional damage of chronic drinking, but there is hope that medicine may make the course to sobriety less perilous...
...best estimates are that only 12% to 25% of patients manage to stay on the wagon for three years. Alcoholics Anonymous, the tremendously popular association of an estimated 1 million recovering alcoholics, remains the single biggest source of support for chronic drinkers. But its record is hard to assess because of members' anonymity. Even so, only 15% to 20% of alcoholics get any treatment at all. Says Enoch Gordis, director of the NIAAA: "Something very important is still missing here...
...stock crash would generate. "The dust hasn't settled," said Paul Jones, a spokesman for Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh. "Nobody knows what to do. You hear talk of recession, inflation, deflation, all kinds of things." But as the stock market continues to shimmy, many firms are already trying to assess the damage to customer confidence. Said Gerald Schultz, president of Bell & Howell, a Skokie, Ill., publisher and information-services company: "We're trying to sensitize our people to get their feelers out, with their customers, with their suppliers and their staff, to see what's going to happen...
...Board's worst day finally ends. Traders try to assess the damage. It will take them four more hours to process paper work created by the 604 million traded shares, a record. The day's loss of 508 points is another, most unwanted, first...
Amid these concerns, there is a striking consensus in the political community over the extent to which the stocks of individual candidates rose and fell with the oscillations on the Big Board. Here is how political traders assess the current market prospects for some 1988 contenders...