European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Among the most prevalent although so called designer drugs such As Entanal Are becoming quite common. During the first month at Ridgeview the impaired physician goes through a vigorous detoxification program that generally leads to a Good Deal of soul searching. In the second month the doctors move to a Halfway House and undergo outpatient treatment. For the final two months they resume their roles As physicians and work with addicts at Ridgeview and other treatment centers As part of a Mirror image once they leave the program. Ridgeview patients participate m ongoing family therapy undergo an ent Jnive Post treatment monitoring and pay regular vis. Is to groups such As alcoholics Anonymous or narcotics Anonymous. Most of the doctors coma from outside Georgia and tour months is a Long time away from Home. Add a hefty Price tag of $14,000 and Ridgeview becomes a lengthy and expansive euro. But those who know say it takes that Long and costs that much to break old habits. When i Cama to Ridgeview i hardly knew who i was Lor a few weeks said or. Charlas Browne a surgeon from South Carolina. I had no Hope and no Way of looking up i was willing to Browne 59, scrambled Back to his feet and became a doctor again he s now on the staf at Ridgeview Browne was a Tine thoracic surgeon maybe the Best in Anderson . But he lost it All with drugs and booze. There Wera blackouts failed marriages and a Slack of Drunken driving arrests. The police would Lake care of to by not charging a when they found me drunk Browne recalled. They allowed a to keep drinking and drugging. They d say Charlie Browne is the Best surgeon in town sober and the second Best drunk they believed it and i believed it. But you know the Public does t need doctors nearly As much As they think they Browns hooked on morphine and demerol in addition to alcohol tried drying out in several treatment programs. Each stay would Start out promising enough but he always managed to convince himself he did not have a problem in a roomful of non Doctora Browne also discovered he did not want to be just another patient. Doctors Are so Browne said. I d Tell the group Leader to go get me some Coffee and i d run his group. I did t gel a Damn thing done for myself finally Browne hit Rock Bottom. He was Downing two liners of Vodka a Day. His family was gone and so waa his License he faced criminal charges Lor stealing drugs and writing illegal prescriptions. He could t pay his Bills and went without heal and running water. His health was shot. He spent his Days in a slate of incoherence. A doctor on the skids sounds like a contradiction in terms and Browne is the first to concur. Sure it s illogical he said. But we re arrogant. Look at How Many lungs i be operated on for cancer yet i continue to when the Bottom fell out Browne was sent to Ridgeview by his family. Days went by before he noticed the Lovely wooded Campus or remembered is name. Bus a Mads i and Ressl Ned Wal teens. He thinks about the choices he faced and figures a made the right ones. It s simple Browne said. You Eitl get sober and live Erma Bombeck craving for carbohydrates some Poapst a end carbohydrate a Pannuty wed Ham to of emf we associated Pressi t is 3 p.m., you have been trying to lose 50 pounds for some months now you already had lunch and yet you have an uncontrollable craving for a snack a cookie a Cracker even Lumpy Oatmeal by not protein. Is there something wrong with you Are you the undisciplined weak willed Dieter you think you May be probably not. Scientist have found that some overweight people who crave carbohydrates apparently need them without them they do not produce enough of a neurotransmitter known As serotonin and they feel worse for it. The same appears to be True for smokers drinkers people with an eating disorder called bulimia and addicts who Are trying to kick the habit and for people who surfer seasonal affective disorder a tendency to suffer depression during Winter months. Judith Wurtman a research scientist in the department of applied biological sciences at Massachusetts Institute of technology said people who claimed they wore unable to lose or keep weight Oil because of the Irres Isable carbohydrate craving were once assumed to be motivated by things other than hunger. In other words they ate carbohydrates because they liked the taste or because these foods reminded them of Happy events in the Paal. They claimed they liked the Way they Felt after eating carbohydrates a somewhat puzzling revelation since in most people carbohydrate consumption leads to sluggishness unless accompanied or followed by a dose of protein. Wurtman and colleagues showed however there is a link Between carbohydrate consumption and production of serotonin a chemical that acts As a messenger in the brain and i involved in mood changes and other reactions. Starches and sugars increase the brain s Uptake of tryptophan. A precursor of serotonin. A High protein diet causes a decrease in serotonin Wurtman said during a panel discussion at the recent convention of the american psychological association. In three studies involving 120 obese people Wurtman and colleagues found carbohydrate craters were less depressed after eating carbohydrates and showed no change in Energy or alertness while others who ate carbohydrates were More depressed More fatigued and less Alert. There seems to be a difference Between tha brains of these two groups of people she said later. Or. Neil Grunberg of Iha uniformed services University of health sciences said other researchers have found one Way to help alcoholics gel on he Wagon is to give them Sweet tasting foods he also noted heroin addicts kicking the habit consume enormous amounts of sugar maybe the craving for sugar to ease the pain of smoking or addiction withdrawal is actually the Seu administration of a drug he said. In a study done by a colleague Grunberg said about 15 smokers trying to quit who were allowed heavy carbohydrate consumption were less anxious and depressed than 16 others on a Low carbohydrate diet. A month later twice As Many of the High carbohydrate group had stayed smokeless. Notton rom Othel of the National Institute of mental health said Many victims of seasonal affective disorder crave ice Cream and other High carbohydrate foods during the Winter he found 16 patients Felt just Fine alter e carbohydrate snack and worse after protein. It was the other Way around with 18 normals. " these results indicate the disorder is related to the brain s serotonin mechanism he said another study showed thai bulimics showed a quicker reaction time than normals after a lunch heavy on carbohydrates. Bulimics Are Binge eaters whose Gorges Are often triggered tension Ariely or few session. However bulimics also consume protein heavy foods so their cravings Are thought to be psychological a motivated. I swear if i Don t Stop Reading All those labels and advice on things that Are hazardous to my health i m going to end up in paper Slipper land the latest Honor Story in thai every Law years women should throw out their cosmetics because once one of them is opened the product s of Span is activated l a stress in put on the product by introducing foreign bacteria to it. You Don t want to know what happens after hat but it s the stuff of which Stephen King movies Are made. They Are saying this to a woman who still has a tube of tango torment lipstick that she bought for the prom it oases my face la my fortune., literally. My dressing table holds hundreds of dollars in masques creams Tot Iona powders blushes brushes a tosses coven up and erasers. The idea of throwing one of them away is beyond comprehension. If i threw away a tube of lipstick every Day for the next three months i would still have enough left Over to write my phone number on 500 restroom Walls. 1 refuse 10 discard my mistakes. The lipsticks thai looked great on the Back of my hand. There s a Shade called Bubble gum grape thai matches a Blouse that makes me look like i m recovering from a malaria attack. There s burning cinnamon thai has been used Only once with an ugly bridesmaid dress and clashed with everything else. I be been tempted to pitch wet rain As 11 turns your lips White and children recall when they see ii. Brooke s pleasure will be with me forever even if ii does turn Green on my lips. My Jar Iff Throat Cream is getting a Little Gamey but then so is Rhy Throat. And 1 would t dream of tossing out a Lite tube of Cream that when applied to your lips keeps tha lips tick from Tollow Rifle the erosion in your saturday october 4, 1986 face. They should have mentioned that a prayer andean animal sacrifice must precede each application like a lot of women i Don t Wear makeup every Day of my life. I Don to think i be Ever used up an entire Box of powder in my entire life and i will hang on to Nail polish until you have to apply it with a trowel Why do we buy so Many cosmetics in my Case Hope always Springs eternal. Especially when i see Jadyn Smith say in her husky voice thanks Why do i get the feeling she has More to thank my Tor than do. It s the cosmetic Industry s fault. If they made hems that turned Green grew mow Tost their Shlaw or Smeed bad women would treat them like garbage. They would put the items in maj Tel containers arrange them Tor a gupte of months amen them and when Thi dog would t Eal them throw them away. " pfl1?the stars and stripes
