Word: treatment
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...that opiates seek out. During the several hours of detoxification, patients are under general anesthesia and unaware of the severe "shake and bake" symptoms they are enduring. Still, they are often dizzy, exhausted and barely able to walk after awakening. And they need the same follow-up counseling and treatment as conventionally detoxed addicts to keep them from slipping back into their old habits...
...largest purveyor of rapid detox is the Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Addiction, which pioneered the technique and opened its first clinic in Israel in 1993. It has since expanded and changed hands several times, franchising clinics in several countries and treating thousands of addicts--to a drumbeat of criticism. The British medical journal Lancet, for one, has blasted CITA for exploiting "the hopes and fears of opioid addicts and their families [and] for making exaggerated claims...
CITA currently has four clinics in the U.S., all of which are affiliated with major hospitals, and charges $6,800 per treatment. But it is not the only game in town. Storefront clinics, using variations of CITA's patented procedure, have sprung up across the nation, and a California entrepreneur is selling franchises for at-home detox centers for $1,000 apiece...
...browsers are indeed the on-ramp to cyberspace; letting Microsoft weave its browser software into the very fabric of Windows could leave the company with an uncomfortably firm grip on the unfathomable riches of the burgeoning world of online commerce. With a browser monopoly, Microsoft could give preferential treatment to services it owns or has contracts with. Anybody wanting to reach the largest number of Web surfers would have to pass through what analysts are starting to call the Microsoft tunnel...
...work: in 1996 the Juilliard piano graduate toiled on a doctoral dissertation on liturgical chant at Columbia University (leading Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in New York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns "restless innovators" whose liberal "sloganeering" he finds...