Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great asset not only to law students who wanted to use their degrees to work in the public interest, but to large numbers of underrepresented people and public causes around the country. Over my three years at the Law School I attended many seminars organized by the public interest placement department. I probably never would have heard of D.N.A. if it were not for Ron; I certainly would not have managed to find the funding for the project I wanted to pursue here if Ron had not been at Harvard...
...bonus, buprenorphine seems radically to suppress the urge to take cocaine, which is abused by an estimated 70% to 80% of heroin addicts. Methadone also tends to reduce coke use, but less dramatically. While methadone may wean half of those treated from cocaine, buprenorphine could slash the number of coke abusers to almost nil, says Yale researcher Thomas Kosten. A Harvard study of rhesus monkeys habituated to using coke found that daily doses of buprenorphine led the monkeys to kick the habit completely...
...underlying psychological and social causes of drug abuse. Even if an addict is weaned from one drug, they say, he will very often take up another. A federal study released in August found that as many as 47% of patients at 15 methadone clinics across the country continued to use heroin or other opiates, and up to 40% used nonopiate drugs, usually cocaine. So scientists find themselves aiming their magic bullet at a moving target. "We're constantly having to treat new disease," said Marvin Snyder, director of NIDA's medications- development program. "In five years, the problem...
...into more creative endeavors. After becoming a partner at one of Minnesota's largest firms, Greg Howard left law to become a cartoonist. His Sally Forth strip is syndicated in 300 papers nationwide. "My writing skills as a lawyer have been helpful in cartooning, but certainly I have to use a lot fewer words," says Howard, 45. "I used to get 50 pages for a brief. Now I get 50 words for a comic strip...
...true that on Oct. 9 you personally intervened to prevent another Tiananmen Square happening in Leipzig by countermanding a written order by Honecker to use military units in and around the city -- which had received live ammunition -- to put down the demonstrations by force, on the grounds that they were counterrevolutionary...