Slog - Comments on Ain't Got 17 Days http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days Amy Winehouse [insert your own sick-Amy image here; I don't have the heart] is reportedly going to try rehab again (though she's also reportedly denying it), this time under the care of detox-specialist Dr. Andre Waismann in Israel, who claims to reverse chemical dependency in a mere 36 hours. His anesthesia-assisted rapid detox, which he calls the ANR Method (Accelerated Neuroregulation), is fascinating. From an article from the Cyprus Review, posted on his treatment center's website: Waismann's method, which has been successfully implemented since the mid-1995, relies on the skills of anaesthetists and ICU doctors to reverse the illness of... Copyright 2008 Fri, 23 May 2008 13:53:12 -0800 Fri, 23 May 2008 19:30:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by max solomon don't you WANT some of your opiod receptors left after that?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031541 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 14:24:03 -0800 Comment by NaFun This will only work for opioid addiction, her crack-smoking can continue unabated.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031559 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 14:30:38 -0800 Comment by Tiktok Remember that experiment where they wired up the monkey with direct electrical stimulation of the pleasure center? There was a button in the cage he could push which would give a little jolt of pure pleasure. So of course, he'd press that button as often as he could. Then they made it so that he had to press it more than once to get a jolt, and he did. So, they kept increasing the number of button pushes required to see when he'd say "Oh, fuck it--I guess it just doesn't work any more!!!"

After the count reached 20K, the researchers gave up. Poor chimpy would stay there hitting that button as fast as he could, forgoing water, food, sleep and sex.

That's what a real drug addict is like. You could burn out all the opiate receptors from AW's brain, and fuck me if she wouldn't spend the rest of her (short) life trying to find some combination of paint-thinner, banana skins and lye that wouldn't get her off.

]]> Tiktok http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031636 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031636 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 15:09:07 -0800 Comment by E bravo @ #1 - what if some day you need those endorphin receptors, like during surgery or post-op?

]]> E http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031695 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 15:55:14 -0800 Comment by COMTE So, the way to get people off drugs -

- is to give them other drugs?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031704 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031704 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 16:00:58 -0800 Comment by doherty Actually, I blv the lyric is "70 days," even though she smack-shootingly pronounces it in an odd way.
Elsewhere in the song she says she "ain't gonna spend 10 weeks/have everyone think I'm on the mend."

]]> doherty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031732 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031732 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 16:23:14 -0800 Comment by Hooty Sapperticker ANR can't possibly be any stupider than 28 days of institutionalized 12-Stepping.

]]> Hooty Sapperticker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031746 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031746 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 16:31:10 -0800 Comment by Dougsf $12,800, if the patient is considering that the price of recovery, is probably below what a real (er... I guess I mean "traditional") treatment program would cost.

Pretty damn skeptical of this though, even if his claims are real, conquering the chemical aspects of dependency is barely half the battle. Good old-fashioned 1950's Schick-Shadel aversion therapy is probably even more effective than this.

Destroying the pleasure receptors of a junkie sounds like a great way to set that junkie up to O.D. their first day out.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031756 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 16:38:46 -0800 Comment by Bison @1

Naltrexone isn't a 100% efficacious antagonist, so there's still going to be some endogenous opioid signaling going on during treatment. The idea is that you reset the opioid signaling machinery back to its pre-addiction state of equilibrium, not that you wipe it out entirely.

]]> Bison http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031765 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031765 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 16:47:43 -0800 Comment by Fnarf What the hell is a drug-free Winehouse good for? I want to see her get a smoking-dolphin tattoo on her face and fall down vomiting on the Grammys next year.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031789 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031789 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 17:09:17 -0800 Comment by crazycatguy Poor Amy, she will never be able to sing again without wanting drugs.

]]> crazycatguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031792 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031792 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 17:13:01 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Listening to her sing makes me want drugs, powerful painkillers.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031833 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 17:45:01 -0800 Comment by longball wait a second, i thought they already tried to send her there but she said, "No, No, No..."

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/aint_got_17_days#c1031885 Drugs Fri, 23 May 2008 19:30:55 -0800