Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors picked out 22 "mainline" addicts, all with costly, longtime habits, and steadily fed them the drug at Manhattan General. Within a week the patients were behaving normally. Only six weeks later they left the hospital, but returned every day to drink their methadone in orange juice. Now, after only seven months of treatment, almost all the 22 are regularly employed; one is in college, another is preparing for it, and two are rated as fully rehabilitated, except for needing continued doses of methadone...
...some 9,000,000 people who live or work in and around the city. The purpose, of course, is to improve dental health by reducing cavities. Already, 50 million other Americans in 2,848 communities get the same insurance added to their water. In addition, 7.7 million Americans drink water that has already been fluoridated by quirks of nature...
...proper amount of fluoridation varies with the climate, which in turn influences the amount of water that people drink. One part per million is close to ideal for a place with an average year-round temperature about 60°F. In colder climes it can well go up to 1.2 p.p.m. (as in Joliet, Ill., with an annual average temperature of 50°); in warmer places, where people drink more it should be kept down around 0.7 p.p.m...
...growth or health of children or adults. But because they do no good, and lead to mottling of the teeth, these excess amounts should be artificially reduced. Bartlett and Britton, S. Dak. (6.7 p.p.m.) are cutting their natural levels down to about 1 p.p.m. A 150-lb. man who drinks 1-p.p.m. fluoridated water would have to drink a bathtubful, or 70 to 100 quarts daily, to get the minimum overdose that seems to affect the thyroid gland. The overdoses needed to damage kidney function or bones are still greater...
...there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice...