Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their well- manicured lawns to ask the staff a few questions. "Will there be bars on the windows?" they wanted to know. "Will they get out and go drinking in the neighborhood?" The answer in each case was of course no, but the questions reveal a familiar attitude toward alcoholics: many people thought of them as hardly better than criminals or at the very least disturbed and bothersome people. But at the same time the fact that a sanatorium for alcoholics had been started by a former First Lady who openly admitted to a drinking problem signaled that a hopeful...
...ways unimagined ten years ago, the shadow that has obscured the truth about alcohol has begun to lift. There is encouraging news, and it is substantial. "Silence is each day giving way to courage," Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said recently, "and shame to strength." Evident all around is a busy sense of awakening. Children are learning about the perils of alcohol in school through slogans like "Get Smart, Don't Start -- Just Say No." The accumulated scientific findings of the past decade are having a major impact on the public. Recently a Gallup poll found that...
...Smart" campaign, aimed at eight-to-twelve-year-olds, has had some success. Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been a primary factor in the fight that has raised drinking ages from 18 to 21 in 34 states plus the District of Columbia since 1982. Despite strong opposition from the alcohol industry, which lobbies vigorously against higher excise taxes for alcohol and warning labels on beer, wine and liquor bottles, groups like MADD and the National Council on Alcoholism continue to push initiatives that will further discourage consumption of alcohol...
Liquor licenses are capped, officials say, because Central Square has been plagued with alcohol problems. One-fourth of all drunk driving arrests in the city occur in Central Square, McDavitt said...
...answer is no. Which is why it makes sense for society to discourage marijuana use. Not because it is immoral -- it is no more so than alcohol -- but because it is destructive and society has the right to legislate self- protection...