Designed to detoxify the system, it can do more long-term harm than good.

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"We have the notion that if we can detoxify somebody, get somebody drug-free in seven or 28 days, that is sufficient, " said Rosenthal.

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Another study found that among veterans, those who were sick were more likely to have a genetic variation that means their bodies are less able to detoxify AChEis.

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It is a touchy subject for the Tories: in 2007 David Cameron promised not to expand the grammar-school system, as part of his attempt to detoxify the party's image.

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"If you really want to make a life change and you really want to learn how to not only detoxify, but eat better, exercise, it's a great program, " Bemis said.

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With trillions of dollars in debt acting as a ball-and-chain for much of Europe, the U.S. and the rest of the developed world, must detoxify their balance sheets before hitting the ground running.

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The next administration and the next Congress need to detoxify the conversation over clean air, clean water, protecting the health of American families, preserving our wild places, seeking energy independence, and saving endangered birds and wildlife.

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They also scavenge (detoxify) peoxynitrites and reverse part of their damage including partially restoring function to receptors involved in short-term memory, mood, sleep, smell, social recognition, alertness, and brain growth, increasing the transport of glucose reducing delusions and wandering, improving neurotransmissions by decreasing the hyperphosphorylation and tau proteins, and inhibiting the influx of calcium which kills neurons.

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