Word: treatment
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...backward way in which America deals with addiction: "[Jody] takes a long drag from his cigarette. 'Man, we need accessible treatment,' he says. 'We need to have treatment centers like we have 7-Elevens. They need to be all over the f___ing place, and they need to be affordable. Treatment works. Maybe not the first time, but it works if you do it right, if you give it the time it needs. For that you need to f___ing fund it. But we don't do that. We'd rather build jails and spend millions of dollars cleaning...
...from some families based on that book before Oprah finally laid the smack-down on him,' he tells me. 'I mean, what's the message of that book? The Twelve Steps are for p___ies. Fight everybody. Hold on. Get better on your own. Don't do anything the treatment center says. Get in a relationship right away. Go in the crack houses and save people. Basically all the messages that our addictions want us to believe so we stay addicted. If you know anything about addiction, you know that he's this typical, grandiose, un-recovered, wannabe...
...depression and failure and self-doubt. Every addict in Denizet-Lewis' book speaks intelligently about his or her disease (this is to be expected; otherwise, there wouldn't be much of a book). They also all show a desire to do the years-long work in therapy and treatment and 12-stepping required - which is what makes their stories both heroic and at the same time kind of insufferable. The repetitive, self-obsessed language and terminology employed by any recovering addict is multiplied eightfold. While each of Denizet-Lewis' subjects have compelling enough tales of their own, the format that...
...currently classified as hazardous waste. Though the EPA in the past has come close to imposing stricter rules on the treatment of coal ash, the agency has repeatedly backed down in the face of opposition from utilities and the coal industry. As a result, hundreds of coal plants around the U.S. are allowed to dump their leftover sludge in unlined wet ponds like the one used by the Kingston facility. Not only does that raise the risk of accidents like the Kingston spill, but the toxins in the ash could seep into the soil or groundwater, contaminating drinking water supplies...
...report remains secret, but a 19-page executive summary was published, and it is infuriating. The story begins with an obscure military training program called Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE), in which various forms of torture are simulated to prepare U.S. special-ops personnel for the sorts of treatment they might receive if they're taken prisoner. Incredibly, the Bush Administration decided to have SERE trainers instruct its interrogation teams on how to torture prisoners. (Read "Shell-Shocked at Abu Ghraib...