Word: detox
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...Opstelten of the VVD, has cracked down particularly hard in the blighted western part of his city, where many housing projects are inhabited solely by immigrant families. There police can search people without restriction; drug addicts from elsewhere found cruising the neighborhood can be arrested and forced into detox programs. "In a city where 43% of the population is not of Dutch origin, it's especially important that the rules for noncitizens be clear and enforceable," says Opstelten. For city councilor Michiel Smit, 26, a member of Livable Rotterdam, another party Fortuyn once headed, those programs...
...Laurent's social aid and detox clinics show that the district and drugs are no strangers. But for everyone, the place has been getting scary. "Day and night the dealers were out on the streets in force, fighting with each other for turf and customers, being aggressive to passers-by," says Jean-Pierre Clavien, a local shopkeeper. "They created fear and insecurity in the neighborhood." Last week all that aggression culminated in the death of one dealer - an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone - who was stabbed in the liver, apparently after giving chase to a buyer...
...Undergoing what he referred to proudly as a “detox period,” David W. Black ‘02 “pretty much totally” abstained from touching alcohol or drugs over the Thanksgiving holiday, excepting “a few beers” before his plane departed, a bottle of wine during Thanksgiving dinner, whiskey out of the liquor cabinet every night after his parents went to sleep, a small bottle of Bacardi Limon mixed into a concession-stand Coke during a viewing of Harry Potter on Friday...
...which Dre raps with Snoop Dogg, is the first single from The Wash. The video is supposed to shoot in two days. The track isn't finished yet. Dre is also working on a song for No Doubt, due next week, and on tracks for his next solo album, Detox, which he'd like to release in 2002. He seems unconcerned...
...Because the biggest stars-turned-addicts can afford the luxury and privacy of exclusive detox clinics in Switzerland, the public rarely learns the risk of dependency posed by doping. Dolivet's Thianty clinic costs $130 a day for its five- to seven-month courses. It receives some outside funding to help less well-off athletes, but dozens of others cannot afford the treatment. Sports clubs and federations could help but don't. "They don't want to be associated with the problem," Dolivet laments. "If you admit your athletes have become addicts from doping, you admit doping is a real...