Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened to be going on at that exact moment--group therapy, meditation, laundry. This enthusiasm was both his greatest strength and perhaps his fatal flaw. If on the job he channeled that eagerness into getting a client interested in a new script or a studio in a project, in treatment he pumped his fist about how great it felt to be drug free. He was always, consummately, in the moment. And for him, there had been some pretty hairy moments. He had begun doing cocaine about six months before, and in a pattern familiar to most addicts had gradually been...
...very close to the other patients in treatment. Your weaknesses are on display, and you trust the others not to attack you where you are soft. It's how the place works; you're all supposed to get better together. We gathered twice a day for two-hour sessions to process issues of grief, relapse prevention, fears, depression, abuse and insecurity. We were supposed to acquire greater awareness of, and healthy respect for, the disease of addiction by identifying with other addicts, the theory being that it's easier to recognize the manipulations and dissemblings in another person than...
Such innovation doesn't come cheap. Treatment is expected to run $1,200 a session, and most patients will require more than one course of therapy a year. But when you're talking about preserving the priceless gift of sight, the expense may seem well worth...
...combat the severest form of the disease. Although their research couldn't help Levy's mother, who died in 1996, it has passed muster with a scientific advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Last week the panel recommended that the FDA approve Visudyne as a treatment. If the agency agrees, the drug, which would be marketed by CIBA Vision, could be available in the U.S. early next year...
...destroying those blood vessels until it is activated by pulses of light from a non-heat-generating laser. Since the light is shone into the eye, only the abnormal growths in the retina are targeted. Patients have to stay out of the sun for 24 to 48 hours after treatment to avoid sunburn...