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...Addictions," says Joseph Frascella, director of the division of clinical neuroscience at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), "are repetitive behaviors in the face of negative consequences, the desire to continue something you know...
...There are some areas in which the changes persist even after two years." One area of delayed rebound involves learning. Somehow in methamphetamine abusers, the ability to learn some new things remained affected after 14 months of abstinence. "Does treatment push the brain back to normal," asks NIDA's Frascella, "or does it push it back in different ways...
...police outside started up a bulldozer to cover the sounds of what was to come, the squad rushed quickly to the second-floor apartment of Emanuela Frascella, 21, a history student at the University of Venice and a Red Brigades terrorist. One commando opened the steel-reinforced door of the apartment with a skeleton key, and his colleagues burst inside. In the hallway they encountered Giovanni Ciucci, 32, a Red Brigades member, who had heard the key turn in the lock and was rushing, pistol in hand, to investigate. Before he had a chance to fire, one of the leatherheads...
...rest of the squad continued to the rear of the five-room apartment, where they found the three remaining terrorists: Frascella, Savasta's girlfriend Emilia Libera, 26, and Cesare di Lenardo, 22. The three put their hands up immediately. Not a shot had been fired. From the moment the leatherheads first entered the building, barely 90 seconds had elapsed...
Four of the five terrorists arrested were taken to an undisclosed location. Ciucci was rushed to a nearby hospital in serious condition after sustaining the karate blow in the hallway. All but Ciucci and Frascella, whose father is a respected Padua doctor, were well known to antiterrorist specialists. Indeed, Savasta and Libera were recently convicted in a Cagliari court and sentenced to prison in absentia for several bank robberies and their involvement in a 1980 Shootout with police. In the apartment, police found large numbers of Red Brigades documents and the two slogan-filled posters that Dozier was forced...
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