Word: clinicism
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...AIDS? Little Jade, 21, refuses to be tested because if it turns out she is infected, the clinic would be obliged to tell the authorities. She would be detained because she traveled to Kunming, capital of China's Yunnan province, without the required work papers. Now she sells herself for $17 to men who pass along this lane like gray, restless shadows. She knows that AIDS can kill her, slowly and hideously. "If I get AIDS, I'll go far, far away," she vows. "I'd rather die than shame my mother and father with this. They think...
...save money to treat her boyfriend's heroin addiction. After all, he saved her. Then she'll stop. She recalls how one of her hooker friends fell ill - Little Jade is sure it was AIDS - and the women chipped in with $75 for medical treatment. But the private clinic her friend went to tipped off the authorities, and the woman was never seen again. Little Jade doesn't want that to happen to her. But it may already be too late...
...although you could. Last month Ventura County, Calif., issued a grand jury indictment alleging that the Hell's Angels used a youth gang called the Outfit to sell more than 700,000 Valium and Vicodin tablets throughout the region--all supplied, according to the charge, by an Air Force clinic employee. But you can also ask your doctor for the pills, and he may not scrutinize too carefully the validity of your request...
This lure is particularly strong for "people who have had sobriety problems before," says Richard Rogg, founder and owner of the fashionable Promises Malibu--a rehab clinic where the high-profile addict can try to kick the habit. "He'll have an operation, and the doctor will give out Vicodin like they're M&M's. Soon, he's addicted. I'm hearing the same old story: 'I had five or 10 years' sobriety, but I got loaded on Vicodin, and I went...
...Because the biggest stars-turned-addicts can afford the luxury and privacy of exclusive detox clinics in Switzerland, the public rarely learns the risk of dependency posed by doping. Dolivet's Thianty clinic costs $130 a day for its five- to seven-month courses. It receives some outside funding to help less well-off athletes, but dozens of others cannot afford the treatment. Sports clubs and federations could help but don't. "They don't want to be associated with the problem," Dolivet laments. "If you admit your athletes have become addicts from doping, you admit doping is a real...