Word: detoxicating
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...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...
...inexplicable urge to shake strangers' hands, drink bad coffee, sleep for three hours a night. And you might need to wear ties for a few weeks - you'll feel naked without one. Just take it one day at a time. Coming off a campaign is kind of like detox, hopefully without the tremors...
...schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox more desperately than ever...
...they took away everything--my drugs, my booze, even my wallet, car keys and New Yorker magazine--and left me nothing but the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous and the promise (or was it a warning?) that I was under medical supervision. I was shown to a cold hospital detox room with rubberized sheets...
...Greg, a dealer of nautical books in Gloucester, Mass., delving into every detail about how Galen died was a way of coping with grief. His seven-year-long investigation became, he writes, "a single thread of purpose in my life. It had kept me from winding up in a detox ward, or from jumping off a bridge, or from shooting someone myself, while I healed." He debriefed everyone, from the psychiatrists to whom Lo described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle...