Word: detox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stereotypes--sophisticated, hi-fidelity stereotypes--are introduced, are belittled, and then skillfully revealed as vivid characters. We can see this in Sabbath's sexual escapades, which have a touch of the anthropological about them. Sabbath is shame-less enough to offer a girl in a detox clinic two quarts of vodka in return for sexual favors (while, mind you, he is ostensibly visiting his wrecked second wife drying up in said clinic), he is sharp enough to describe both his target and his wife with a commited, if not exactly compassionate, eye. This unblinking veracity is the source of Roth...
...families, the pink-stucco True Way Baptist Church may well be a station on the road to salvation. Just ask Delores Mayes, 28, whose children were seized and placed in foster homes when her crack habit got out of hand. Faced with losing them for good, Mayes entered a detox program for six months but had nowhere to take them when she emerged. That is when the church, under contract to the county, stepped in: its outreach workers found her housing and furniture. She reconciled with the children's father, a former crack addict himself, who secured two steady jobs...
...People tell me, "Why don't you go into detox?' I've never drank in my life," Ed A. Springman, homeless for two months, says while selling Spare Change outside of Bay Bank. "[People say] 'Get a job.' This...
...dozens of previous books, movies and teleplays show the terrain: innocent children imperiled by drunken carelessness; a steadfast spouse trying to understand and cope; an alarming incident that brings the victim to the edge of self-destruction -- and self-awareness; the decision to seek professional help; the terrors of detox; the fragile return to sobriety and the recriminatory rebalancing of power in a damaged family; and finally the tearful public confession, carrying with it an implicit promise of a responsible future, which offers audiences a reassuring sense that they have once again witnessed a triumph of the human spirit...
...article also indicated that most CASPAR clients enter a detox program. According to shelter director Win Poor, usually only one guest a night enters the program...