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Ideally, methadone is mixed with fruit juice (to make injection difficult if the drug is stolen) and administered under the eyes of doctors or nurses. In practice, carelessness or corruption permits a few patients to hold the juice in their mouths until they can spit it into plastic bags and sell it as "mouthwash methadone." Some unethical doctors are selling the drug to nonaddicts or prescribing unneeded amounts to real heroin users; many addicts are getting extra supplies by enrolling at more than one treatment center. In clinics where vigilance is slack or rehabilitation services inadequate, take-home privileges...
Unlike the reusable (and breakable) glass thermometer, the new product looks something like a Band-Aid. It is a short, thin strip of plastic-coated aluminum printed with a series of numbers from 96° to 104°. Next to every number is a row of five small dots representing gradations of two-tenths of a degree, and each dot contains a different chemical formulation, which reacts and turns blue at a precise temperature. When placed in the mouth for 30 seconds, v. three minutes for a conventional thermometer, the device shows a progression of blue dots until the person...
Some 30 million glass thermometers now are sold each year in the U.S., and prices usually range from $1.50 to $2; Bio-Medical spokesmen say that the plastic thermometers will cost less than a dime each. Since they can be used only once, the company indicated in a prospectus filed with the SEC that distributors expect to sell around 1,000,000 thermometers daily...
...effects of a new chemical being tested in the area by the Army; Dan, also infected, probably will not live out the week. He learns all this, after days of bureaucratic soothing and sedation, when he sees Chris' clothes being carried out of the hospital in a clear plastic bag. Logan breaks out, vowing vengeance on the officials and the doctors who have lied to him. He blows up the plant where the chemical was manufactured, then, although slowed by the poison, heads for the Army base to take the same kind of reprisal there...
...himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...