Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while even Lyndon's intense heat treatment failed to melt the dead lock. The industry claimed that it could not possibly boost its offer of a 40.6? hourly wage increase for a 35-month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
Post-mortem studies show that, with prompt detection and proper treatment, half of those who die of head injuries could have been saved. Lasting or delayed disability could be similarly reduced, reported Pakistani-born Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at Bethesda, Md. Detection, however, is doubly difficult in the peculiar and treacherous kind of injury known as "whiplash"-the result of the sudden forward-and-backward snapping of the head that is common in rear-end auto accidents...
...mainline" addicts, all with costly, longtime habits, and steadily fed them the drug at Manhattan General. Within a week the patients were behaving normally. Only six weeks later they left the hospital, but returned every day to drink their methadone in orange juice. Now, after only seven months of treatment, almost all the 22 are regularly employed; one is in college, another is preparing for it, and two are rated as fully rehabilitated, except for needing continued doses of methadone...
Rugged Test. "The most dramatic effect of this treatment," report Drs. Dole and Nyswander, "has been the disappearance of narcotic hunger." By some biochemical action that still eludes the medical experts, methadone blocks the usual effects of heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin...
...Public Health Service in the past has rejected any addiction treatment that leaves the patient dependent on another drug. But the New York doctors believe that their preliminary results certainly justify further trials. City health authorities agree: in a $1,380,000 program, they are extending the methadone treatment to at least 250 more addicts...