Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your income had gone up at the same rate as Intel's, by 1997 you would have earned $359,100. Yet you would have saved $13,600 in state taxes. And you would owe it to the clout you exercise: the ability to demand and receive special tax treatment...
That's what studies with rats suggest, anyway. But rats aren't people, and although researchers in Germany have reported that kava is safe and effective for humans--prompting that country to approve the root as a treatment for mild anxiety--many U.S. physicians are unimpressed. "If a substance has an effect on mood, that doesn't necessarily mean it has therapeutic value," says psychiatrist Benedetto Vitiello of the National Institute of Mental Health. "A good cup of coffee has an influence on mood, but it's not really an antidepressant...
...malady is fully emerging into the daylight: it has been the "disease of the week" topic on recent episodes of the teen-oriented TV series 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210. And now come two major books: Bodily Harm (Hyperion) by Conterio and Lader, based on their successful treatment program, and A Bright Red Scream (Viking), in which journalist Marilee Strong provides a compelling tour of the trauma and science of self-injury...
Contrary to the stereotype, self-injurers are not all middle-class, teenage-to-twentysomething white women, an image reinforced because the behavior is often linked to another affliction common to that group, eating disorders. Self-injury is prevalent in all races; minorities are simply less likely to get psychiatric treatment and thus be counted. More surprising, an estimated 40% of self-injurers are men. They are often overlooked because they tend to dismiss their injuries as the product of macho outbursts...
...their book, Conterio and Lader challenge the orthodoxies of conventional treatment. Typically, patients are placed in restraints, given high doses of sedatives and kept away from sharp objects. Instead, Conterio and Lader opt for tough love. They refuse to view or discuss scars with patients who enter their five-week program. They push injurers to take responsibility and control in counseling sessions, using an aggressive "Why would you do that?" approach worthy of Dr. Laura. It's a method they say has decreased serious recidivism 75%. "We help them earn back their self-respect," says Conterio. "There's a difference...