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...last year's tightened drug-control laws, the Food and Drug Administration is at last launching an all-out investigation to answer a question that has caused savage controversy for twelve years: Is there any basis for the claims that Krebiozen, a mysterious horse-serum drug, is a cure for some forms of cancer? Though Krebiozen has never been approved by any federal agency, about 3,500 doctors have given it to about 5,000 patients. Last week FDA began gathering evidence to establish...
Since Synanon House set itself up in Santa Monica four and a half years ago as a mutual self-help cure station for drug addicts, it has seen its fame spread across the country. And for good reason. Addicts given intensive treatment at special federal hospitals have a relapse rate as high as 90%; Synanon, which models itself on Alcoholics Anonymous and uses ex-addicts to give junkies the support and understanding they need to kick the habit and stay clean, has cut the relapse rate...
...snowball into a rumble. And the ultimate punishment is expulsion from the program. But in return, Synanon gives the addict, often for the first time, a sense of belonging to a group. Instead of a "fix," it offers, by the example of the ex-addict leaders, hope that a cure is possible. And because the group governs and disciplines itself, it gives the addicts and other convicts a jolt of self-respect...
...epigram that is chalked on a slate, such as Socrates' "All I know is that I know nothing," or Emerson's "Discontent is the want of self-reliance." From there the prisoners take it on their own, analyzing themselves and one another. But the strongest prompting toward cure is the living example of the ex-junkies themselves...
Football introduced the forward pass, basketball the one-handed shot, and baseball threw out the spitter. Now we have a larger strike zone, but it remains to be seen whether fewer pitches and bases on balls will cure the more deep-rooted ills of the national pastime...