Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When methadone was first introduced 24 years ago, it was hailed as a magic bullet aimed at the heart of heroin addiction. A neat, clean medical solution to a social problem. It has proved to be something less than that. Methadone is a treatment, not a cure, for addiction, and an imperfect one at that. But for some 100,000 of the country's half-million heroin addicts, it offers an alternative to shooting up as well as the possibility of a productive life...
...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 may not be cocaine, but some drug we haven't even heard...
Patients received injections of interferon, a natural infection-fighting protein that can be artificially produced by genetically altered bacteria. One drawback: most of the patients who improved suffered a relapse when the injections ended. Doctors think the problem may be resolved by giving interferon for longer periods or in higher doses. Says Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University medical school: "There's no question that it is very promising...
...aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share in an emotional payoff...
...favor of a solution of all the problems of this society by reaching consensus by all the existing social and political forces in the country. There is always more than one solution for a given problem. The most important element of consensus is that it serves the majority of the people. Nothing should happen that would serve only a part of this society and not the majority...