Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upsurge of problem drinking among the young is only part of a more disturbing nationwide and even worldwide problem. In the past few years alcoholism-among youths and adults alike-has at last been recognized as a plague. From 1960 to 1970, per capita consumption of alcohol in the U.S. increased 26%-to the equivalent of 2.6 gal. of straight alcohol per adult per year. It is now at an alltime high, probably surpassing the levels during such notoriously wet eras as the pre-Civil War and pre-Prohibition years. Moreover, according to the NIAAA, about...
...facts gathered by NIAAA about alcohol abuse are as depressing as they are impressive...
...After heart disease and cancer, alcoholism is the country's biggest health problem. Most deaths attributed to alcoholism are caused by cirrhosis of the liver (13,000 per year). An alcoholic's life span is shortened by ten to twelve years. Recently, medical researchers have found evidence suggesting that excessive use of alcohol may also quietly contribute to certain kinds of heart disease, and that it eventually damages the brain (see box page...
...drinking. ("Know when to say when" is the theme of one ad. "If you can't stop drinking, don't start driving" is the message of another.) Last week liquor industry leaders and state beverage-control officials met in Miami with experts from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies to consider other measures that could or should be taken. Jack Hood, board chairman of the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association, told conferees of plans to use "the unmatched power of education to convince every American, young and old, that responsible drinking is the only kind that anyone should...
...virtually all states, that influence is legally set at a blood concentration of .1% or more alcohol. A 150-lb. man can reach this level if he takes three one-jigger (11½ oz. per jigger) drinks within an hour...