Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Provision Company billed its alcohol delivery service to Harvard dorms while Buddy's Sirloin Pit on Brattle Street advertised a sirloin steak dinner for $2.99 and a 12 oz. Michelob for 50 cents. At Bailey's Ice Cream, a large ice cream cone was just 35 cents...
...fewer nutrients. Because his metabolism is slower, a 50-year-old man requires fewer calories to hold his weight at, say, 170 lbs. than he did when he was 30, even though he continues to exercise at the same pace. Eight glasses of water or other fluids (except alcohol and caffeine) make up the base of the new pyramid. Younger adults need the same amount, but they don't have to be told to drink. Thirst tells them. As people age, though, the thirst signal can fade and fail to warn of dehydration...
Indeed, pot and alcohol are common forms of self-medication among depressed teens. Weller estimates that about 30% of her teen patients have used pot or alcohol after a depressive episode, most of them at the urging of friends who said smoking and drinking would make them feel better. A high school social worker in Minnesota decided to look into the case of a troubled girl who was still a freshman at 17. The girl admitted she smoked pot as a constant habit but did not understand why she craved it so much. A psychological evaluation found the girl...
...intense. For several weeks, if I wasn't studying or in class, I was playing Doom. If the game can affect a law student this way, I can only imagine the effect it must have on immature high school losers. I am convinced that violent computer games, much like alcohol and pornography, should be kept out of the hands of those younger than age 21. ANDREW PARMA San Antonio, Texas...
DIED. DANA PLATO, 34, child star of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes; of an apparent drug overdose; at the home of her fiance's parents; in Moore, Okla. Plato, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, was arrested in 1991 for robbing a video store. Her onscreen siblings Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges have also had run-ins with the law since the hit series was canceled...