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From San Francisco, a man who had lost his wife and job because of his cocaine habit is contemplating suicide. He is talked out of it and referred to a local drug clinic. A cocaine abuser in Beverly Hills who has been suffering from drug-induced convulsions wants to know if they can possibly be controlled by Dilantin, a drug used for epileptic seizures. Answer: don't try it. A tearful California mother reports that her son has been free-basing cocaine for three years and is about to lose his job as a hotel manager. What...
Tonight researchers will carefully monitor and record every function of his body having to do with sleeping and breathing. He has been transferred from Harvard affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to the Sleep Disorders Clinic and Laboratory in nearby Harvard affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
...device, is a 30-year old woman who suspects that she has insomnia. She arrived at about 9 p.m. the usual hour for patients to enter the lab for overnight stays, and her vital signs will be recorded until 6 a.m. as well. She is an outpatient, in the clinic just for the night, and unlike the sleep apnea patient, she requires no supervision from the lab's two-man team...
Aside from the severity of his case, Stakes adds, tonight's patient is typical of apnea sufferers. He is in late middle age, moderately obese, with a short neck, and male. Most apnea victims are, and their wives bring them in to this clinic or others like it complaining that while their spouse has always snored, recently they have noticed that he seems to stop breathing...
Other professionals agree with Vaillant's glum assessment. "We don't do anything adequately," admits Dr. Robert Millman, director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Service at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. Explains Dr. Blume of the N.C.A., who is a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrists have been trained that alcoholism is a problem which comes from early-childhood experiences, but aren't taught how to treat alcoholics. They go after these 'underlying causes,' treatment doesn't work, the alcoholic gets worse and the psychiatrist decides that the disease is intractable...