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...drug-treatment centers are run like a cross between military-style boot camps and prisons. Even so, beds are scarce as addicts seek the meager resources available. In China, the nearly 750 state-run rehab centers are filled to capacity; in Thailand the few recovery centers suffer from a chronic shortage of staff and beds. While the most powerful tools for fighting addiction in the West?12-step programs derived from Alcoholics Anonymous?are available in Asia, their dissemination and implementation do not reach much of the region. In Thailand, for example, Narcotics Anonymous meetings are far more common...
...What started out as a fun diversion for me and my tokyo crowd degenerated in a few months into the kind of chronic drug use that Jacky and her crowd have found familiar. I began to smoke alone, and I started smoking before going out on interviews or to meet editors. I smoked, basically, to begin my days. In the evening, I'd take valiums or halcyons or cercines or any of a number of sedatives to help me calm down. When I stopped smoking for a few days just to see if I could, a profound depression would come...
...have done a great public service by reminding people--who, one hopes, will read "Repairing the Damage" while riding an exercise bike--that it is never too late to adopt simple habits to maintain health and delay the onset of chronic diseases. Half of all Americans will die prematurely of something that is easily preventable, and about half of us are living with a chronic disease that can be managed with the right combination of healthy behaviors. Your article commendably suggested that while there are easy steps to take, there is no single answer to disease. Gene therapy...
Fibromyalgia is a mysterious illness with a long name and a bad reputation. For years, patients who went to their doctors complaining of inexplicable pain, stiffness and fatigue were told that they were depressed or stressed out and their symptoms were psychosomatic. More recently, fibromyalgia has been linked to chronic-fatigue syndrome and the aftereffects of Lyme disease, which in some medical circles is enough to give any ailment a bad name...
...thing, more Europeans are getting to work. Whereas jobs in the U.S. are beginning to grow scarcer, Europe, long plagued by chronic unemployment, is still adding to its employment rolls. This should boost consumption, and what's more, Lipp argued, the effect will be relatively long-lasting. Said Lipp: "Once employment starts to pick up, it's not a cyclical phenomenon." Longer term, huge corporate and individual tax cuts in the works in Germany and France should also boost consumption...