Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer, calls "stalemate." Since nobody is quite sure what to do, says Califano, everybody backs into familiar positions and stays there. America's answer to most problems of the past decades was to throw money at them. For all its vaunted budget slicing, this Administration cannot break the habit entirely. Consider the military budget. Califano insists, "Nobody knows how to spend an extra $34 billion for defense in one year." As Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter, Califano had a budget of $182 billion a year. He now admits that some...
...their Rocky Mountain highs from cocaine. So it is appropriate that Colorado also boasts the country's only clinic of its type exclusively for coke abusers. Operated by the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, it has been extraordinarily successful in helping people kick the habit. Its principal method? Self-blackmail. The abuser, who comes to the clinic voluntarily and usually in desperation, promises to quit and then designs a painfully severe penalty for failure. The nature of the punishment varies with the individual...
...Edith," 24, a registered nurse, had a three-gram, $300-a-day habit. She went on binges, took coke intravenously and started mixing it with such drugs as heroin, morphine and Demerol. "The highs were terrific," she says, "but the lows outweighed them by a mile." When she signed a contract with the Denver clinic, she agreed to write two letters: one to her parents, confessing her dependence on cocaine and asking that they no longer support her; the other to the state board of nursing, admitting her habit and turning in her license. The letters were to remain...
Dick Casey, 87, still lives, thank God. But for the first time in upwards of 40 years he failed to make the scene. Each morning it was Tommy's habit to drive Casey and his wife to 8:30 Mass at St. Joseph's Church in Winter Haven, then on to Chain O' Lakes Park. Casey's booming voice could be heard a block away. "It's not the same this year without him," Tommy says...
...talking soothing self-destruction to him: "Me 'n' you're just gonna hang out in this room together. We'll talk it out." And the futile attempts of friends like Actor Jim Brown, and even some of his drug suppliers, to save him from his habit. And of the accident, and his anguished scamper across the lawns of Northridge: "I did the 100-yard dash in four-point-three." And his admission to the hospital-"I was all steam and smoke"-and his excruciatingly painful recovery...