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When asked for her thoughts on alcohol policies, Faust said that Harvard’s rules have been “much more liberal” than those at peer institutions...
...Harvard, Thursday night’s revelry appears to remain safe for now. Psychology researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that students who do not have classes on Fridays consume twice as much alcohol on Thursdays as those who do have Friday classes...
Ryan M. Travia, Harvard’s director of alcohol and substance abuse services, said that while Iowa’s plan makes sense in theory, he would hesitate to apply it here until more research is done...
...steady increase in the number of students admitted to University Health Services for alcohol poisoning led then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to announce the formation of the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health. Hiring an alcohol czar—Travia—was one of the committee’s recommendations...
...price tag on the total impact of drug abuse, NIDA estimates it costs the U.S. $484 billion a year in health care costs, lost earnings, crime and accidents. Complicating the problem, addicts tend to abuse more than one substance at a time - two-thirds of cocaine addicts also use alcohol, for example - a potentially lethal combination that may be increasing in popularity. A 2006 University of Florida study found that deaths from cocaine overdose, which often involved alcohol, increased in Florida from 150 a year in 2000 to 300 in 2005. Researchers hope that addiction vaccines may someday help...