Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faith into law, Massachusetts is violating the spirit of the principle of separation of church and state. While laws requiring once-a-week shop closings in general might serve the nominally secular purpose of providing a day of rest (an aim sanctioned by the Supreme Court), the alcohol law imparts a specific religious judgement about drinking on Sundays which the state is in no position to make. Those who wish to observe the Sabbath by not drinking alcohol are free to do so but don't need the state's sanction and shouldn't be allowed to deprive others...
...bled to death as a result of deep cuts he sustained from the fall. Police quickly ruled Prentice's death as an alcohol-related accident...
...thing, Barbara Prentice discovered that her son had at most three beers the evening of his death and his blood-alcohol level was .12, not high enough to impair him, she said. And Adam had always been afraid of heights and was not a risk taker...
...becomes law, experts say ACCRA would havetwo primary effects. First, it would increase thenumber of drug and alcohol offenses that collegesreport in their crime statistics. Colleges are notcurrently required to report violations of drugand alcohol policies, only arrests...
Although it has increased in the nationalconsciousness in recent years, partly as a resultof alcohol-related crimes, FBI statistics showthat colleges are as safe now as they ever were...