Awakening the Frozen Addicts (Documentary)

Published March 4, 2013

Awakening the Frozen Addicts (Documentary) – An account of a medical mystery that occurred in California in 1982 when a group of illicit drug users exhibited the symptoms of advanced Parkinson’s disease after inadvertently taking heroine contaminated with the toxic chemical MPTP. This tragic event led to important discoveries about Parkinson’s disease, including the controversial use of transplanted foetal brain cells to relieve the symptoms. The programme follows two Parkinsons sufferers who have travelled to Sweden to undergo this experimental surgery. First Shown BBC Two – 4 Jan 1993 (Horizon Series 29 Ep. 2)

Ryland Fisher

Filed under: California Drug Addiction

They also know that they have a ready market for the drugs and stolen goods they peddle. Getting rid of a drug addiction is very difficult, but refusing to buy stolen goods is easier. If there is no market, it is an industry that will die out. This of …
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'Sequester' kicks in, but no compromise in sight

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He called the reductions imposed by the automatic, across-the-board cuts a "modest" step in solving Washington's "spending addiction." McConnell spoke on CNN's State of the Union. None. House Speaker John Boehner speaks to the media after a meeting …
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