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...still viewed as a matter of willpower and discipline rather than a tenuous and slow spiritual and psychological rebuilding process. When it comes to methamphetamine addiction, where the brain goes through physiological changes that leave the abstinent addict clinically depressed because of depleted serotonin levels, recovery programs and rehab centers become a crucial way station between addiction and sobriety. But most of the region's drug-treatment centers are run like a cross between military-style boot camps and prisons. Even so, beds are scarce as addicts seek the meager resources available. In China, the nearly 750 state-run rehab...
...started taking many more drugs than just methamphetamine, until I hit my own personal bottom. I spent nearly six weeks in a drug treatment center, sitting through tedious group therapy sessions, working out some plan for living that didn't require copious amounts of methamphetamines or tranquilizers. I left rehab five years ago. I haven't had another hit of shabu?or taken any drugs?since then. But I am lucky; I am an exception. Of that crowd who used to gather in my Tokyo apartment, I am the only one who has emerged clean and sober. Trey, my fellow...
...knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again: That's right. Back to the drug treatment center. Oh, yeah - and maybe a few months of jail time...
...Rehab, volley, comeback. The scandal-plagued tennis star lands on top Down Under...
...extent the author probably intended, these five stories are set unmistakably in Carver country and populated by Carver people. The heroes have quit drinking, as Carver did in 1977. Marriages are tense or broken. In Kindling, a man named Myers has just gotten out of an alcohol rehab center and can't go home again because his wife "had a lawyer and a restraining order." So he rents a room in another town and winds up voluntarily chopping a load of firewood for his landlord. In What Would You Like to See?, a married couple have agreed to split...