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...that be? What's the catch? How can a team low on numbers and high on injuries keep the losing column blank...
...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 of 41 addicts on methadone maintenance, it cut the number of those who continued to take heroin to just over half and eased 18 off opiates altogether...
...acts on the pain-killing endorphin system alone, cocaine engages three separate neurotransmitter systems: those based on dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Taken together, these networks govern the human ability to experience pleasure, from watching a sunrise to having sex. Blocking all these pleasure centers -- as methadone blocks the heroin high -- would literally take the joy out of life, says Yale's Kosten. "We'd turn out automatons." Addicts trying to quit cocaine go through a stage called anhedonia, a sort of spiritless limbo that typically drives the user to take the drug again. At best, researchers can hope...
Boston, which had its four-game winning streak snapped, was led by Robert Parish with 38 points, two short of his 14-year career high. Bird added 24 and McHale 20, but the Celtics were only 16-for-53 in the second half and 6-for-24 in the fourth quarter...
...that means if we get a high lottery number, say in the upper third, we pick three `Prime' houses, or maybe three really bad houses if we have to pick our three non-choices. If we get a low lottery number, we should pick good houses if it's non-non-choice and three bad ones for regular part-partial-fractional-randomization. I guess the only way to be definite is to get a middle number and pick a low-advantage/non-offensive house...