Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe we are clouding the real issue in a marijuana smokescreen [Aug. 15]. The questions of whether it is more or less harmful than alcohol or is physically addictive are not important. The real question is: Why do we feel we have to exist in a semicomatose state, whether it be from pot, booze or pills...
...Though its members come from all races and live in many places, the underclass is made up mostly of impoverished urban blacks, who still suffer from the heritage of slavery and discrimination. The universe of the underclass is often a junk heap of rotting housing, broken furniture, crummy food, alcohol and drugs. The underclass has been doubly left behind: by the well-to-do majority and by the many blacks and Hispanics who have struggled up to the middle class, or who remain poor but can see a better day for themselves or their children. Its members are victims...
...people who get stoned nearly every day. They risk becoming psychologically dependent on pot and damaging their lungs with the tar in marijuana smoke. But light or occasional use of marijuana-once or twice a week -usually produces only a pleasant high, no more dangerous than mild intoxication from alcohol. Of course, pot like alcohol affects users' judgment and reflexes, so it can lead to accidents if people drive or operate machinery while high...
Experimenters used tranquilizers and alcohol on mental patients and staff members at the Butler Memorial Hospital in Providence. Other scientists tried out brainwashing techniques-including isolation and sensory deprivation-on patients at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry in Montreal...
...save them by operation after operation. The results were never fully satisfactory, and in 1958 he lost his right leg. Only toward the very end of his life, with Linda dead and his health beyond repair, did he seem to despair, giving in more and more to pills and alcohol. Death, in 1964, was probably welcomed...