Word: detox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some law-enforcement experts are skeptical about the effectiveness of such restrictions, saying that drunks could buy their alcohol in a better neighborhood. But Phillip Faight, chairman of a San Francisco group called Safe and Sober Streets, hailed Gallo's move. Said Faight: "If only one person goes to detox as a result of this, the whole thing's worth...
Perhaps the most innovative technology involves the use of bacteria. A small Texas company called Detox Industries has developed microbes that eat PCBs, creosote and pentachlorophenol. Microbiologist Ananda Chakrabarty of the University of Illinois in Chicago has used a patented "molecular breeding" process to achieve the evolution of a bug that can convert the chief ingredient of the herbicide Agent Orange, 2,4,5-T, into carbon dioxide and chloride. In laboratory tests, his bacteria are so dependent upon the chemical that once they have consumed whatever is available they...
Gaetano Altobelli (Philip Bosco) is an Italian-American ex-Mafioso "collector." Through assiduous upward social mobility, he has risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest...
More and more company health programs cover alcohol and drug detoxification programs. There are now scores of post-detox rehabilitation programs as well, but they can still be ruinously expensive. One that aims to break a patient's habit but not his bankbook is Georgia's Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences Inc., or MARRinc. Its fee: $125 a week. Begun in 1975 by Donnie D. Brown, then a rehabilitation counselor and therapist at the Georgia Mental Health Institute, the program runs seven Atlanta-area halfway homes for detoxed drinkers and drug addicts who are not yet ready to return...