Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the other medics usually remain in the health center assisting Reavell and the clinic's one county-supplied nurse, Black roams the back country roads as a "point man," watching for telltale signs of sickness, lecturing families on how to guard against hookworm, which afflicts some 30% of Hoke's children, and distributing health pamphlets. "I am a rat, I am your enemy, I carry germs that make people sick," begins one. There are others on prenatal care, family planning and hygiene...
...relatively normal life. But methadone also has its drawbacks. It is almost as addictive as the heroin it replaces, and most addicts must indefinitely maintain their new, though less destructive, habit. Because methadone is short-acting, it must be taken daily; addicts starting treatment must either report to a clinic for daily dosages or be given several days' supply at a time, a practice that opens the door to abuse...
...years earlier, the beatnik takeover of the Bay City's North Beach area had produced some fine poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, and Novelist Jack Kerouac. From the Haight, though, little emerged to ennoble the spirit-except, perhaps, the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, which is the subject of this book...
...clinic was chronically short of funds and a steady target for the sneers of San Francisco's medical establishment. From the beginning, its chief was a young M.D. named David Smith who, as the book notes, "identified with the young . . . shared their frustration and disillusionment and their Rousseauan faith in the virtue of natural...
...clinic offered more than therapy for victims of the drug salads consumed daily. It had doctors and nurses able to help out with psychiatric cases, general internal-medicine problems, venereal diseases. For the doctors there were educational fringe benefits as well, for they could observe a stunning variety of examples of drug abuse. Smith himself, sympathizer though he was, came to "see that the community contained the seeds of its own destruction in its refusal to accept social and individual controls and in its acceptance of unbridled experimentation...