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Health professionals need to be more alert to older patients' substance abuse, cautions a new report in the Elder Law Journal. As many as 1 in 6 Americans age 60 or older is overly dependent on alcohol; one-third of these heavy drinkers are "late-onset abusers" who turn to drink after a major lifestyle change, such as the death of a spouse. Many doctors fail to consider substance abuse as a cause of symptoms. Others shrug off suspicions because they feel the patient "does not have much else to look forward...
...Tuesday, Dean of the College John B. Fox ’59 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III asked the club to shut down. The previous fall the club had closed for a month when 10 initiates were sent to University Health Services after consuming too much alcohol, but this time the club refused to obey administrators...
...gentlemen’s clubs. [Pi Eta] was thought of as the fraternity at Harvard,” Epps recalls. “It was mostly a social club for boys who had not made the varsity teams. I’d talk to the undergraduates about serving alcohol and they promised to control the drinking, but something always occurred...
...year, approximately 734,000 people were arrested for marijuana offenses. That is 734,000 people who dealt with the humiliation, anguish and monetary damage that entails being handcuffed, fingerprinted, forced to appear before a judge, making bail and serving probation. Would we tolerate this treatment for the use of alcohol or cigarettes...
...only criticism of Springfest seemed to be that there was no alcohol served...