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How to Get Rid of a Cocaine Addict

William holsted designed the medical residency programme in the mould of his own cocaine habit behavior, which was sustained wakefulness. He then went to a clinic that would try to get him off the cocaine. And part of the way, part of the treatment to deal with going cold turkey, was that they would give him morphine to try and help with the pain. So it's the story of an accidental addict. But we still hold that maniacal, in humane practice for training our doctors to extreme degrees with terrible patient and doctor consequences. Ah, that systemsas just a weird cultural hangover in that industry.

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