Word: alcoholism
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...support system in place to help them overcome their problems. Sometimes it only takes an empathetic friend who is willing to listen and share their experiences to make a huge difference is one person’s life. The peer counseling groups, Community Health Initiative (CHI), Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA), student mental health liaisons, and the Mental Health Advocacy and Awareness Group all provide very valuable resources and support to students. We should all appreciate the efforts of students and administrators in staffing these groups and providing these supportive services to the community. But, in order to actually...
Holm-Denoma's work reaffirms, among many others, a 2003 Harvard University study that concluded anorexic women are, by nature of their illness, self-destructive, leading them to have a likelier propensity toward suicide as well as alcohol abuse. That study of about 250 women suffering eating disorders showed the risk of death by suicide among by anorexic women to be as much as 57 times the expected rate of a healthy woman. Research on suicide in 2006 by psychologist Thomas Joiner at Florida State University took those conclusions one step further and suggested anorexics habituate to pain, making them...
...Harvard Survival Guide Drinking Game, buy yourself a nice big hip flask, and start playing. 1.) Someone says “Foucault,” “Sartre” or “Marx” in section 2.) You see The Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services (AODS) Nalgene 3.) You see a DHA tuxedo 4.) Someone asks a question in lecture—double shot it if they speak twice in the same lecture 5.) Somebody mentions they’re Pre-Med—body shot if they’re a humanities concentrator...
...thumping techno, lasciviously gyrating bodies, and a stale, acrid fog machine haze. At least one face-painted, shirtless, sweaty dude bounced around the room, beckoning fellow revelers to join him in electronica ecstasy. And yet, Friday night’s Underground Rave—sponsored by DAPA, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors—was a decidedly wholesome affair. Despite being alcohol-free, the event managed to attract more than 300 curious party people over the course of the night. Pre-gaming is an admittedly useful innovation. But the event had the surprising air of good, clean fun. Even certain...
...Harvard’s administration tightens the College’s alcohol policies, a task force of students and faculty at Princeton charged with tackling the issue of high-risk drinking on campus is considering setting up a room party registration system similar to the one that used to exist at Harvard. The task force, called the Alcohol Coalition Committee, will report its findings in May, and has hosted two events to solicit student input during the past month. Another event will take place this Friday. The move to study a potential new alcohol policy comes amid increased concern about...