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...Hospital in Carville, La., and at several other centers in the U.S. and elsewhere, it has been shown to arrest some phases of the disease process, although it is no cure. What encourages leprosy specialists most is the fact that the number of patients regularly attending clinics is increasing. Not because the disease is becoming more common, but because, with fear reduced and hope increased, proportionately more victims are presenting themselves for treatment. New York City, with three clinics already serving more than 100 patients, has now added a fourth, more specialized unit in lower Manhattan. The name over...
This sounds like barbaric, inmates-of-Charenton therapy, but it is the key to the clinic's theory of "reality confrontation." The psychiatrists actually live with the patients in ordinary family dwellings. They assault the patients psychically-and sometimes physically-in order to penetrate their penumbra of fear. A doctor wrestles violently with a suicidal 14-year-old boy to try to make him accept the reality of contact. When a psychotic young woman refuses to respond, the same doctor sits on her stomach and shouts: "You're making the least progress of anyone here!" Then he soothes...
...months, ex-Mafia Attorney Lawrence A. Burns has been talking with Michigan authorities and newsmen about his dealings with gangsters and cops in Detroit. He claimed that Ellenburg had been receiving bribes for years from mobsters to protect the numbers racket and from Burns himself to protect an abortion clinic. Burns also fingered Thomas Cochill, another former Detroit lawman whom Ellenburg had brought to Cleveland as his personal aide...
...problem is of staggering proportions. Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder and psychiatric director of New York's Odyssey House, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts, calls it an epidemic. The first young heroin users began appearing at her clinic only last June, she says. Today the traffic is more than Odyssey House can handle-four to six junior junkies every day. To accommodate the overflow, Dr. Densen-Gerber has opened two branches solely for youthful addicts. One of her first applicants: a nine-year...
Society must recognize as well that the child drug user is the casualty of great and upsetting social change. In one sense, says Clinical Psychologist Stephen Rush of the Los Angeles Free Clinic, he has become a displaced person in a culture that his grandfather would not recognize-or much care for, either. Parental permissiveness, the growing conviction that the young and old generations have lost contact-such factors erode the old-fashioned family solidarity that once granted children a comforting sense of place. "The real solution," says Rush, "is in finding ways for young people to become active members...