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Detox 3.1 - Get hooked on drug policy! Score interdepartmental brownie points by bouncing addicts between services until the system collapses.  
prosecutedRun the medical, mental health, law-enforcement and social services... into the ground. Score interdepartmental brownie points by bouncing addicts between services until the system collapses and you get to present the taxpayer with the bill!
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Control them all and go against The System, or play against the computer and try to make its services overload and fail! Refer patients with the classic addiction/psychiatric dual diagnosis to and fro between your physician and psychiatrist while secretly hoping the law-enforcement agencies solve your dilemma by arresting them, or the computer's social services fail them and they just disappear! Or, for the ultimate challenge,
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play a Deathmatch game and be the last department standing. Rise to the prestigious office of Director of Public Prosecutions, Medicutions, Socicutions or Psychecutions!

    Features
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Three exciting modes of play: vs Computer, vs The System and Deathmatch
  • Configurable service size, computer acuity, patient presentation and the lauded "Tough on crime" option
  • Extensive post-game analysis in the form of an itemised bill to the taxpayer
  • See how your score compares with the pros on the Market Leaders list
  • Simulation accuracy extents to the 70+ sound effects
  • Chill/freak out to original background music
  • Dynamically resizable arena

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Download Detox 3.1u (28.2mb)

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System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.3 or better

Tech Notes

2 February, 2008
Detox is now a Universal Binary, allowing users to turf addicts between services 60% faster on Intel Macs.
19 November, 2005
New in Detox 3.1:
- Slider to set level of political interference
- New flavour of MP
- Computer-controlled services move independently
26 October, 2005
New in Detox 3.0:
Marauding local member of parliament
- paralyses the police with photo opportunities
- shrinks the medical services
- gropes the social worker
- floods the system by closing down the asylums
15 January, 2005
New in Detox 2.1:
- Hazardous leprosy muffins
- Bill to the Taxpayer updated in line with the Medicare Benefits Schedule November 2004
16 November, 2004
New in Detox 2.0:
- Four new types of addict
- Patients now form relationships in detox, complicating management with volcanic break ups and dragging each other down
- More delicious soundbites
9 January, 2004
New in Detox 1.2:
- Muffin and coffee with every tenth detox
- New soundbites
- Refined collision detection
- Improved help
- Version number incremented by 0.1
8 December, 2003
This software may delete your home directory or cause fires in your power supply. MacWorld recommended *****
 
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