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Nature 433, 568-569 (10 February 2005) | doi:10.1038/433568a; Published online 9 February 2005
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Drug rehabilitation : Cold turkey, Vietnamese style
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Abstract
It was invented by a healer familiar with the horrors of opiate addiction, and refined by Vietnam's leading chemistry lab. Can this novel herbal cocktail ease withdrawal and reduce drug cravings? Peter Aldhous investigates.
Tung doesn't ask for much in life: he dreams of finding a job, getting married, and becoming, as he puts it, a "normal person". But the dark stains on his arms mark him out as a social pariah.
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javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.

