Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vernon Patch, associate professor of Psychiatry and head of the drug rehabilitation center at Boston City Hospital, said he plans to test the drug naltrexone hydrochloride on paroled addicts from Deer Island Prison. "It will help them protect themselves against heroin," he said...
...Inmates leave prison with drug hunger and seek drugs upon release, so they just return to their old lives. The blocking agents prevent them from getting a high on heroin," Patch said...
...Patch added that the drug is being tested at McClain Hospital and the Washingtonian Center, both in Boston, but under different control conditions. Patch would be the first to use the drug on former inmates...
...Middle East war may be a bystander-the Atlantic Alliance. Driven apart by divergent policies toward the war, the U.S. and its European allies have spoken to one another in words more appropriate to enemies than friends. Although both sides of the Atlantic busily and belatedly tried to patch things up last week, the damage to the 24-year-old NATO alliance, which was already showing signs of wear, may be lasting. "There's a lot of dust floating around," says a ranking Italian official, "and it's going to take a long time to settle...
...already seen two cases of addicts who shoot through their necks," Patch said. "The methadone program is the most effective single treatment for addicts and must receive high levels of community support...