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Maradona Under Sedation For Treatment of Alcoholism  

Jump to full article: The Washington Post, 2007-03-30
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Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona remained sedated in a clinic yesterday for treatment of alcoholism and excessive eating and smoking.

A day after Maradona was taken by ambulance to the Guemes Sanatorium in Buenos Aires, clinic director Hector Pezzella said the 47-year-old former star was under sedation . . .

Maradona's physician, Alfredo Cahe, said the soccer great was taken to the clinic late Wednesday for health problems brought on by overeating, drinking and "the quantity of cigars he smoked."

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