Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale of narcotics, extortion and loan-sharking, corruption, coercion, bookmaking, policy, assault and robbery, burglaries, counterfeiting, hijacking, receiving stolen property, forgery, possession and sale of weapons, labor racketeering, stolen-auto rings, untaxed cigarettes, insurance frauds, arson of businesses, the cutting up of autos and boats, prostitution and violations of Alcohol Beverage Control Laws...
Charles R. Robinson, the state medical examiner who performed Largey's autopsy, concluded Monday that physical injuries were not the cause of death. He listed the cause of death on Largey's death certificate Thursday as ingestion of rapid acting barbiturate and ethyl alcohol (overdose...
Buckley cited alcohol, barbituates and amphetamine as "our most serious drugs." He said that heroin, "the most notorious of all the drugs, is really the least damaging," If takes in pure doses, whereas the negative effects of three ounces of alcohol can be measured "immediately...
...aboard with an orientation lecture and a physical examination. Then, provided that the checkup discloses no other medical problems such as high blood pressure or heart disease, they are started, sometimes for life, on daily oral doses of Antabuse, a drug that causes the body to react violently to alcohol. Those who drink after taking Antabuse usually experience a variety of unpleasant effects: stomach cramps, nausea, rapid heartbeat, sweating and chest pains...
Captain James Baxter, 47, an Annapolis graduate who is a director of the Navy's Alcohol Abuse Control Program, has good reason to believe that liquor can be beaten. He is a recovered alcoholic himself. Of the nearly 200 patients treated at Little Creek since it opened, only 30% have relapsed to the bottle; 70% are now performing regular duty-soberly...