So instead she has chosen to recount the soap-operatic lives of the surrealists, of their promiscuous, scandalous, perfidious and self-obsessed goings-on, all in the name of revolution.

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The cold turkey scene has cropped up in films like Trainspotting and soap operas like EastEnders, where a parent uses so-called "tough love".

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So why the sudden interest in a spin-off of the seminal '90s soap?

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They see soap and mainstream medications as products of Corporate America and that makes them turn to the so-called naturalistic alternatives.

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