Word: injection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large, supporters have been persuaded by Quattlebaum's argument that heroin, which has been prohibited for use by U.S. doctors since 1956, is in many ways superior to morphine, the injectable narcotic most widely prescribed for cancer pain. According to Quattlebaum, heroin is faster acting because it is more soluble: "You can use half a cc of heroin, when you may have to use 20 times as much morphine." This is especially important in treating patients who are so emaciated that there is little muscle left in which to inject a drug, making a large shot extremely painful. Quattlebaum...
...greasy ambition on his sleeve, and that he is something of a political light-weight, but there's no denying that he has also done a fine job of shaking up the Washington establishment on the freeze issue. It was Markey's outsider, bad-boy manner that promised to inject some emotion into what so far has been a puling, punctilious campaign...
David ended up in Massachusetts General Hospital with bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the lining of the heart. It is sometimes caused by using dirty needles to inject drugs. After that, according to Collier and Horowitz, a psychiatrist agreed to prescribe the painkiller Percodan in order to keep him away from heroin. David took up other drugs as well-cocaine and Dilaudid. Bobby was arrested in South Dakota last year for possession of heroin, and entered a drug-treatment program...
...instance, "the NERPC teaches monkeys to inject cocaine into themselves so the doctors can examine the effects of addiction," said Symes...
...most of Shultz's first year in office, he seemed low-key to the point of passivity. "He refused to inject himself," says an Administration colleague. "He waited and waited until he had to be pushed in." Once pushed, however, Shultz went in head over heels, particularly on the Middle East. He spent two weeks last spring in the region, mediating between Israel and Lebanon. Suddenly his stake in the success of the U.S. policy became a matter of personal pride...