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Will there ever be a simple cure for alcoholism? Probably not. Even so, the next decade or so holds dramatic promise for advances in understanding and effectively treating the disease. Researchers hope eventually to sort out alcoholics according to the neurochemical bases of their addiction and treat them accordingly. "We are still trying to map out these neurochemical systems," says Edgehill Newport's Wallace. "If we succeed, then it is likely that we will be able to design treatments." A.A. and other groups may always be necessary to help alcoholics assess the psychological and emotional damage of chronic drinking...
Years later, after hundreds of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and many hours of intensive counseling, I am happy to acknowledge that I have a serious, progressive ailment, with no cure. Alcohol is no longer a terrifying, destructive force in my life. It is just another chemical, fine for you, perhaps, but deadly for me. I avoid it, but without a sense of panic or fear. Friends say I am a completely different person now. Only, sometimes, I remember the feelings of hopelessness and shame from those terrible years, and I still have to struggle to hold back the tears...
Physicians advise that the study results do not point to a miracle drug that will provide a risk-free cure for heart disease. For example, gemfibrozil seems to predispose people to develop gallstones. Moreover, doctors recommend that anticholesterol drugs, including lovastatin, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in September, should be used only as a last resort...
...imitative, and other, more profound T-shirt themes abound. Other mottoes include, "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's where you go to school," "They may beat us on the field, We will beat them off," and, "Harvard's the disease, Yale's the Cure...
...greenback must continue to fall, say many economists and now the Administration, if the U.S. is to curb its ruinous trade deficit. But no one can argue that such a strategy offers a simple and painless cure for America's economic ills. On the contrary, the perils are enormous and the effectiveness is uncertain. The immediate challenge for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury is to control the dollar's descent -- no easy feat -- and prevent a free fall, which would scare off foreign investors, drive up U.S. interest rates and perhaps cause another panic on Wall Street...