Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard psychiatrist studying marijuana feels that the drug is probably less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco...
...psychiatrist, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, director of psychiatric research at the Mass. Mental Health Center, says that the data compiled for his study gives him "the strong impression that no amount of research is going to prove that Cannibus [marijuana] is as dangerous as alcohol or tobacco...
Havasupai are forbidden to bring alcohol onto the reservation, but it is bootlegged into the canyon and sold at exorbitant prices. Increasingly, the younger tribe members have been the best customers. "I suppose it's because there's so little to do here," says John Greenfield, a fundamentalist missionary and one of seven whites in Supai. "It's a terrible problem-that, and sexual immorality...
Impaired Skill. During a recent seminar in Manhattan on traffic and accident medicine, Borkenstein listed seven specific types: 1) the drinking driver to whom neither drinking nor driving is a problem and whose blood alcohol concentration never goes over the .10% or .15% threshold accepted by most states; 2) the skillful driver who usually imbibes moderately, but on occasion overindulges to the point where his skill is impaired; 3) the man whose skill behind the wheel has deteriorated because of age or illness and who may consequently feel the effects of alcohol more acutely; 4) the inexperienced driver, whose lack...
Because they cannot control their deep-rooted impulses, those in the last two categories are the most dangerous of all. The threat of punishment is usually effective with social drinkers, Borkenstein notes, and those who are unusually sensitive to alcohol can learn to allow for it. But psychotherapy-as well as strict enforcement by the highway patrol-may be the answer for the sociopathic driver, whose chief problem is immoderate behavior behind the wheel rather than at the bar. For alcoholics, Borkenstein cautiously proposes suspending their driving privileges until, through medical and psychiatric help, they have their problem under control...