Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spiral curved down, Schwartz ran through more and more women, more and more colleges. He campus-hopped to Princeton, Kenyon, the universities of Chicago, California, Syracuse. His ambition to be the Great American Poet deteriorated into a panicky need for money. Inspiration was replaced by alcohol and amphetamines. The body went to flab, the handsome face to coarseness. Fellow Poet Hayden Carruth remembered Schwartz slouching toward 40: "He looked and spoke like a defeated shipping-house clerk...
...have long been standard equipment for highway patrolmen. Now they are also featured in about 150 bars in at least eleven states (and some 400 pubs in Canada as well). A drinker merely drops a quarter in a slot and blows in a straw. The machine then registers the alcohol level in his or her blood. In most states, anyone with a reading of more than .10% alcohol in the blood is considered legally drunk...
...great success in coping with his own and his patients' migraines by changing both diet and lifestyle. Among other things, he advises reducing salt intake; avoiding such foods as ripened cheese, chocolate, nuts and ham; staying out of crowded, smoke-filled rooms; getting ample rest; shunning alcohol, especially red wines and brandy. Other doctors downgrade the importance of diet. Says Dr. Arthur H. Elkind, director of the headache clinic at New York's Montefiore Hospital: "Occasionally we tell patients to avoid certain foods, but counseling is always required to find out what the problem is and what the correct treatment...
...missed the old way of living," he says halfheartedly. "We were more happier, there was a sense of community. People stayed on the reservation and helped each other out. People went hungry together, and everyone chipped in. Alcohol wasn't much a problem here then...no cause. But now we are gradually losing our language and traditions...
...blame anyone for my alcoholism...she said, "but I think I had the problem from the very beginning, though I never drank until I was 18. All I remember is drinking two drinks. I drank to get drunk. I think people who are unsure of themselves or have inferiority complexes are prone, because alcohol gives you false courage. But it was always there, that wasn't the problem. It was admitting it that hurt...