Word: depress
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Many physicians now concede that patients have been undermedicated for decades, suffering needlessly. One reason was concern that big doses of opiates could depress respiration, but a large part stemmed from an exaggerated fear that patients would become addicted. This fear, which continues to hold sway over American medicine, is basically unwarranted. A landmark study, published in 1982, followed almost 12,000 Boston hospital patients who had been given narcotic pain-killers. After eliminating those with a history of addiction, researchers found that only four became addicted to the drugs they received as patients. "You don't see cancer patients...
...first place. "It ain't complicated," concedes a Clinton aide. "We needed Jewish votes in the primaries. We played it one step at a time, and we can't waffle now. We're stuck. We can only hope there's enough residual bitterness about Bush's hardball tactics to depress his part of the Jewish vote in November...
...prime rate by half a point, to 3% -- the lowest level since 1963 -- in yet another attempt to jump-start a sputtering economy. But that news eventually drove stock prices lower as investors feared that the combination of more unemployed workers and falling interest income would conspire to depress corporate earnings...
Scheme Z was part of a plan to depress the elevated Central Artery underground. Under Scheme Z, four bridges over the Charles River would connect the state's newly depressed Artery with Interstate...
Scheme Z was designed as part of the plan to depress the elevated Central Artery underground. Under Scheme Z, four bridges over the Charles River would connect the state's Central Artery with the interstate highway system...