Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear from the figures that more addicts can be salvaged by methadone than by any other method."-Dr. Vincent Dole, Rockefeller University...
...Metabolic Specialist Vincent Dole and his wife, Psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, conducted the first pioneering experiments in methadone maintenance. Their success helped make maintenance a preferred U.S. method of rehabilitation. Already some 60,000 of the country's 600,000 addicts are being treated at 460 public and private clinics in 40 states; another 30,000 are on waiting lists. As use widens, problems mushroom, and critics have begun to remind advocates that heroin itself, when it was discovered in 1898, was touted as a desirable alternative to morphine...
Each year visiting journalists observe council procedures and return home both awed and puzzled. "It ought not to work," says Vincent Jones, former executive editor and vice president of the Gannett newspapers, "but somehow it does...
...Thirteen Days, "Frequently I saw advisers adapt their opinions to what they believed President Kennedy and later, President Johnson wished to hear." There were two cardinal tenets I We are doing the right thing? We are doing it well When the China experts with three names apiece--John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service indicated that the Chinese Nationalists were losing and only a rapprochement with the Communists could prevent Chiang Kai-snek's defeat they were booted out of office as traitors When during the Cuban missile crisis Adlai Stevenson suggested that the United States remove from Turkey its obsolete...
HODGKIN'S DISEASE is a cancer originating in the lymphatic system. Formerly, most patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease lived less than two years. Drs. Paul Carbone and Vincent DeVita of NCI have kept 70% of their patients alive for at least five years; Frei has achieved an 80% remission rate in patients with the disease. Dr. Isaac Djerassi of Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Darby, Pa., has found ways to overcome some of the problems inherent in chemotherapy, which can produce toxic reactions, by developing a technique for transfusing platelets (clotting agents) and disease-fighting white blood...