Word: chronical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...professional record spanning more than four decades, Nelson has had to spend $20,000 on lawyers, fearing that the government will indict him if it turns out that one of his patients has misused his medicine. "My practice is sunk," says the 73-year-old physician, who specializes in chronic-pain treatment. "I can't even write a prescription for Tylenol 3 if someone has a migraine...
...focused attention on the problem of under-treated pain. Research showed that addiction did not necessarily result from aggressive, well-managed opioid therapy. In the 1990s, as the specialty of pain management grew in hospitals and universities, opioid use spread from cancer and end-of-life patients to the chronic-pain victims of industrial accidents, car crashes and conditions such as migraines, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis...
...dispute was born of good intentions. In 1994, when China produced more oil than it consumed, Beijing allowed county governments in Shaanxi to drill for oil in an effort to alleviate chronic poverty. The counties sold mineral rights to citizens for around $10,000 per square kilometer. Entire villages often pooled their money to invest in rights and rigs. More than 6,000 wells were drilled, and soon the "pump worms," as derricks are known in the local dialect, yielded crude. "I saw people building new houses, hiring teachers for their children," says Liu, who in 1999 formed a company...
...interesting legal strategy: persuade the prosecutors of your predilection for dirty sex with women of age. That’s all well and good as cockeyed legal strategy, but I want more than mediocre sex-with-me-is-like-great-chronic metaphors. (I’m serious. This is entirety of track 12: “Sex Weed...
...chronic fatigue...