Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being tested is buprenorphine, a pain reliever that in early trials has shown clear advantages over methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction. Under development by a team at Yale University, the drug, like methadone, induces a generalized feeling of contentment rather than heroin's precipitate rush and euphoria. It is at least as effective as methadone in easing physical withdrawal and reducing cravings, and it is significantly more potent in blocking heroin's high if the addict tries to shoot up again. Unlike methadone, buprenorphine is relatively nonaddictive and carries almost no risk of overdose. In one trial...
...Aquino, the euphoria of People Power has long been replaced by the tribulations of running the Philippines. Even as the world seemed to be infected by the kind of popular uprising she led, Aquino was struggling with mixed results to make democracy work with a fragile economy and in a land afflicted with corruption and insurgency. At home, her halo has lost its shine, and her popularity, while sizable, has dipped substantially...
...euphoria of a week ago, when the popular movement to end 41 years of orthodox Communist rule brought down the old hard-line leadership, appeared to have been replaced by anger that the Communists were reneging on promises of reform...
East Germany's gentle revolution turned a little nasty last week. The euphoria that had accompanied the crumbling of the Berlin Wall was followed by a wave of bitterness against the hard-line Communist leadership, under the now ousted Erich Honecker, that had stifled East German lives for two generations. Some of the anger also sprang from the realization, following the opening of borders to West Germany, that the East German economy was in worse shape than the citizenry had realized...
...Avenue speak little or no English. News about the old country is broadcast in Polish on radio and television and headlined by the daily Zgoda (circ. 15,000) and at least a dozen thriving Polish-language weeklies. The reaction of leading commentators in recent months has sometimes bordered on euphoria. "Events in Poland have infected the rest of Eastern Europe," exclaims George Migala, host of the popular radio show Voice of Polonia. They have also infected Chicago...