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...blamed "family history," her father, her grandfather. An old aunt, dying, said, forget that, you're a drunk. The author went through detox, then months in which her shaking hands shook less. And finally--family history, of course--learned to fly-fish properly. Taught, she insists, by a vision, possibly supernatural, of a naked man, fly rod in hand, drifting down a river on a raft. Sure. Anyhow, she is now able to cast a Royal Coachman so that the fly walks on water, "and the circle of fish shatters like beads in a kaleidoscope, bathing me in light...
Crank is too cheap, too available and too addictive, Sumner says. "Honestly, I don't know where it's going." The crankers who show up at the clinic require, on average, four weeks of detox, often with the use of antipsychotic drugs, before the counselors can even get through to them. On a wall in the Rimrock recreation room hangs a homemade poster showing a medevac helicopter like those that land at nearby St. Vincent Hospital. The poster is intended to reassure paranoid recovering crankers, but many are so unstrung that they fear the helicopter is after them...
Janet Cousrouf, Rimrock's director of nursing, says crank carries with it almost a two-week residue of paranoia. "Since the detox time is longer than most companies are willing to pay for, our biggest problem is insurance...
...ultra-rapid opiate-detoxification program that helps patients withdrawing from addictive drugs [MEDICINE, June 1] was developed and patented by the CITA organization. It was a vindication of the safety of the CITA process to see the criticism of our so-called competitors, who perform unsafe variations of rapid detox in cheap storefronts. They exploit a desperate and vulnerable patient population. In contrast, CITA operates from prestigious hospitals, using the finest physicians and medical treatments. More than 500 patients have been effectively treated, affording an unprecedented opportunity for those addicted to heroin, methadone and narcotic painkillers to return...
...young children can free them from the effects of a dangerous drug addiction imposed on them by their mother. The baby in the case I handled was detoxified without incident in the intensive-care unit shortly after a successful major cardiac surgical procedure. In the weeks following the rapid detox, the child exhibited remarkable and profound improvement in his cognitive and neurologic development. Publicizing rapid detox through popular television shows has absolutely nothing to do with promoting medical business ideas that might be financially profitable to certain firms. This story was presented on E.R. because it was able to illuminate...