Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Condon has been selective in his campaign. No woman has been arrested for putting a baby at risk by alcohol consumption or tobacco use--despite the fact that babies born with serious health problems as a result of booze and nicotine far outnumber babies born with cocaine in their systems. "I would be on a legal slippery slope if I tried to prosecute women who used legal substances," says Condon. But he is warning social workers and drug-abuse counselors that they too could be prosecuted and jailed if they fail to turn in pregnant women found...
...disease. So said a contrite Christian Slater on Sunday, meeting the press for the first time since being sentenced last Tuesday to 90 days in jail. Slater pleaded no contest to a battery of misdemeanor counts, including abusing his girlfriend, resisting arrest and being under the influence of alcohol and cocaine...
According to Kathleen A. Bray, manager of Freshman dorms, room inspectors are not looking for alcohol...
...program. The Cambridge License Commission uses a lottery system to select sting targets on a given evening. Those unlucky individuals who are caught by the program face the harshest of consequences, but it is their poor luck alone that accounts for their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they should focus the brunt of their efforts on the adult proprietors...
While local universities have recently seen several alcohol-related deaths, most notably the tragic death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger, these were a result of unsafe party and fraternity environments, rather than underage drinking. Laws governing the purchase of alcohol have been around for quite a long time. Never before has the CPD exhibited such zeal with regard to their enforcement. If the problem of underage drinking had worsened recently, this might be understandable. "Cops in Shops" is a crackdown that is not justified by any real threat to public safety...