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WHICH brings to mind some of the other aversion techniques that doctors cook up now and again. One of the latest is an electro-shock treatment reported by UPI. The idea is that you sit in a room with plenty of booze. You can drink any time you want but every time you lift a glass, you get jolted with electricity. We can just imagine the scene, after the doctor has talked a half-bagged specimen into trying his machine and downing a triple shot thereupon getting knocked silly with the volts. We can hear the doctor asking now, "Well, what do you think of my machine?"