Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During exam period two students were treated and released after they smoked marijuana purchased on campus that they believe was "dusted" with either angel dust, the alcohol extract of marijuana, or PCP, a synthetic amphetamine derivative also used as a horse tranquilizer, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday...
...survey, conducted by College Marketing and Research Corporation, a subsidiary of Playboy, and Leslie A. Riffkin & Associates, indicates that 74 per cent of the 4170 American students surveyed drink beer, 84 use alcohol, but only 28 per cent smoke cigarettes...
...most groups hibernate. In some ways, however, the Dead seem stuck in the debris of the late '60s; their music has the raw, unreconstructed sound of earlier groups, and they retain their oft-publicized position as the high priests of acid. Despite the death by excess in everything, particularly alcohol, of the immortal Pigpen (Ron McKernan) back in 1973, the Dead roll on, forever, it seems. Garcia (Captain Trips himself and the director of the movie), Lesh, Weir, kreutzman and Hart have played together for so long that they have developed the kind of tightness few groups can ever hope...
...madness. The determined denial of reality is designed to curb our frustration by giving us a glimpse of the millenium, in which man will live harmoniously with nature, children will no longer be molested, street gangs will devote themselves exclusively to good works and the joys of polyphony, and alcohol will soothe the stomach as well as the brain. The trains will even run on time...
...public insurance coverage, for example, has brought access to many who previously did not have it; advances in technology that have increased the power of medicine to prolong and enhance life have required additional funds; health care has taken on new assignments, like mental health, drug abuse and alcohol abuse. And the pay of health care workers has finally been brought up to the level of other industries...