Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half of all murders in the U.S., either the killer or the victim-or both -have been drinking. A fourth of all suicides are found to have significant amounts of alcohol in their bloodstreams. People who abuse alcohol are seven times more likely to be separated or divorced than the general population...
...when we report to a parent that his kid isn't acting the way he should and smells of liquor," says Don Samuels, a Miami drug-education coordinator, "the reaction is: Thank God! I thought he was on drugs.' " Actually, many teen-agers use both marijuana and alcohol...
...alcoholic tide has been pushed higher by the fast-selling, inexpensive pop wines, which disguise their alcoholic content with sweet fruit flavors. These wines make the transition from soda pop to alcohol just one easy step. "Kids seem to look on the stuff as a zippy, sophisticated soft drink," says Houston's Bruner Lee, education director for the Texas Council on Alcoholism. "But this 'kiddie stuff,' this pop wine, contains 9% alcohol-about twice as much as beer." After the pop wine phase is over, the kids often go on to much stronger drink...
Vanilla Extract. Most school officials are too embarrassed by the alcohol problem to do much more than reluctantly admit that it exists. One system that has faced up to it and conducted reliable surveys is in the suburban county of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. There, in 1970, school officials found, 11 % of the ninth grade boys (13-and 14-year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage...
...some places the ratio between men and women problem drinkers is already equal. For example, in Florida's Dade County (pop. 1,385,000), authorities estimate that there are 78,000 alcoholics-and almost half are women. At the Women's Alcohol Education Center in South West Miami, patients can relax in a pool or on a patio and their kids can play in a garage full of toys and live animals. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and has a daily average of 18 women visitors...