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...heroin under doctor supervision and received counseling. "We found highly persistent improvement [among the patients]," says Uchtenhagen. Today, there are 23 clinics across the country that treat roughly 2,200 drug users, or about 6% of the nation's heroin addicts. The average stay is three years - a quick stint for users who average 15 years of heroin use. Less than 15% relapse into daily use. "In the beginning, without their daily chase for a fix, many of them fall into a sort of void. They get depressed: 'What did I want to do with my life? What relationships have...
...Friday the appointment of State of Massachusetts finance official Leslie A. Kirwan ’79 to the post of FAS dean for administration and finance, effective Nov. 2. In an e-mail announcement, Smith prominently referred to Kirwan's "strong background" in financial management, including a two-year stint as secretary of administration and finance for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, as a crucial quality she brings to her post in an FAS now facing a $110 million deficit. As the secretary of administration and finance under Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, Kirwan was responsible...
...Snowe tried to tackle the problem during her stint as chairwoman of the Senate's Small Business Committee, but she got nowhere. "We had a debate for a week on the floor back in 2006 for small-business health-insurance legislation," she says. "We never could reach a consensus and move beyond the barriers that had developed on both sides of the political aisle." Snowe now says that effort was a "formative event" in her approach to health-care policy - which no doubt explains why Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus made sure that what she wanted back then has been...
...love at first sight ...the connection is there,” said the pet owner, commenting on her first encounter with Merf, a Siberian Dwarf hamster she acquired as a result of “feeling lonely” during her stint in dorm crew earlier this summer...
...government. (The G.D.R. earned hard currency and rid itself of dissidents by literally selling thousands of political prisoners.) Yet some Ossis still think Juritza and his fellow prisoners deserved their punishment. He tells of falling into conversation with an old man on a Berlin street. When Juritza mentioned his stint in jail, the old man erupted in fury. "Someone forgot to kill you," he said...