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...Hammonds said she is still in the process of learning the details of Administrative Board reform and the College’s alcohol policy, both of which have made waves over the course of this academic year with students...
...said he recognized that flashing is difficult to stop. Indecent exposure, said Pasquarello, is not common in Cambridge. But according to Catalano, HUPD deals with a few exposure incidents each year. “Sometimes we don’t know if someone does it because of alcohol, because of a dare, or because of some kind of perverted reason,” Pasquarello said. The offender, if caught, can face a charge for open and gross lewdness depending upon the severity of exposure, said Pasquarello. Jail time is also a possibility, and the offender’s criminal record...
...support system in place to help them overcome their problems. Sometimes it only takes an empathetic friend who is willing to listen and share their experiences to make a huge difference is one person’s life. The peer counseling groups, Community Health Initiative (CHI), Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA), student mental health liaisons, and the Mental Health Advocacy and Awareness Group all provide very valuable resources and support to students. We should all appreciate the efforts of students and administrators in staffing these groups and providing these supportive services to the community. But, in order to actually...
...Besides, people have been attempting to seek relief from their psychic suffering with less safe—and less legal—methods since time immemorial. And while one can’t become addicted to antidepressants, it is very possible indeed to become addicted to engaging in alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and self-injurious behaviors in order to alleviate the suffering caused by mental illness...
Holm-Denoma's work reaffirms, among many others, a 2003 Harvard University study that concluded anorexic women are, by nature of their illness, self-destructive, leading them to have a likelier propensity toward suicide as well as alcohol abuse. That study of about 250 women suffering eating disorders showed the risk of death by suicide among by anorexic women to be as much as 57 times the expected rate of a healthy woman. Research on suicide in 2006 by psychologist Thomas Joiner at Florida State University took those conclusions one step further and suggested anorexics habituate to pain, making them...