Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does it feel to be in the middle of unimaginable carnage? Safire disposes of such questions in two perfunctory sentences. Then he gets to the important part, a detailed exposition of how photographs are made, circa 1862: "He coated a sheet of glass with collodion, the guncotton dissolved in alcohol and sulphuric ether mixed with a little bromide and iodide of potassium they had compounded the night before...
...legislation would sweep away a World War I law enacted to ensure that munitions workers remain on the job and sober. But the change remains controversial 15 years after it was first recommended by a government committee. Critics claim that longer drinking hours will promote alcohol abuse. Supporters point out that Scotland, which dropped its restrictions in 1977, has found no increase in alcoholism. If Parliament approves the bill, as expected, the so-called dead afternoon will doubtless become more spirited...
...double jeopardy of mental illness and chemical dependence. "Only in the past few years have mental health professionals realized how devastating the combination can be," says John Talbott, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Maryland and co-author of a study commissioned by the federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) that will be released next week. Says Talbott: "There is no such thing as recreational drug use or a social drink for someone with a severe psychiatric illness...
...manic depressives. Although these doubly cursed patients frequently show up in psychiatric hospitals and emergency rooms, they are unlikely to get much help. "These are the troublemakers," says Talbott, "the ones that everyone has given up on." Thanks in part to the easy availability of street drugs and alcohol, this hard-core subgroup is rapidly growing. "Twenty-five years ago you didn't have this problem, especially among the young," he notes...
...ADAMHA study discloses that at least 50% of the 1.5 million to 2 million Americans with chronic mental illness abuse illicit drugs or alcohol, compared with about 15% in the general population. It also reveals that the dual diagnosis virtually guarantees a hard fall through the cracks of the system. "Most mental health programs screen out people who have substance-abuse problems and send them down the street," explains Julie Boynton, director of a six-month-old rehabilitation center in Los Angeles County that deals specifically with both conditions. "And the alcohol and drug programs won't take people...