Word: detoxicating
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...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...
...urine-stained mattress without a sheet. "He cried pitifully," Sweeney recalls. "He wouldn't eat or play. He sat with a shopping bag under his arm." The youngster was returned to his grandmother's house, but soon his mother, who temporarily cleaned herself up with the help of a detox program, regained custody of the boys...
...surprisingly well, provided that a good program is available. Margaruite Custode was offered the choice between jail and treatment last June and picked the latter, figuring that she would dry out, get her baby back and get high again. Custode, a 30-year-old New Yorker, had been through detox before, and the treatment never stuck. She had lost custody of two previous children. But this time she entered a program at Daytop Village designed for mothers. To her amazement, she found that within a month she began to connect with other women in the program and to care about...