| 单词 | reduction cure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreduction cure b. Applied to forms of treatment for drug addiction by reducing or limiting drug use; esp. in reduction cure. ΚΠ 1889 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 501 The author discusses briefly the effect of morphine, and states his belief in the gradual reduction treatment.] 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 69 Reduction.., the reduction cure for a ‘habit’. 1922 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 16 Apr. 26/4 Almost one-half of the book is devoted to a discussion of gradual withdrawal methods, reduction treatment of drug addictions. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie iii. 39 The ‘thirty-day cure’. This is not a reduction cure. They don't give any junk... All they offer the addict is thirty days' detention. 2004 Observer (Nexis) 20 June (Mag.) 31 I tried clinics, I tried Narcotics Anonymous, I tried therapy, reduction cures, exercise and, eventually, sheer white-knuckled denial. < as lemmas |
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