"You are not seeing the value that we should be seeing for the clean-up and the environment, " said Pollet, who heads Heart of America Northwest.

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This may be because some people were erroneously put on the drugs, or because years of drug therapy healed heart damage, or simply because taking people off the pills motivates them to clean up their behavior.

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