Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Village has declined precipitately in recent years. The flower people of the late 1960s, mostly middle-class kids trying to create a gaudy secular religion, have given way to a desperate culture of emotionally troubled rejects, largely from working-class and even ghetto families. Amphetamines, heroin and old-fashioned alcohol have generally replaced pot and LSD; violence has supplanted Aquarian love. Now the area is open to the professional pimp, who uses a combination of terrorism, drugs and ersatz affection to lure confused teen-age girls into prostitution. The teeny-hookers have created a glut on the market, sneers...
LIQUOR. Returning U.S. citizens are limited by customs to one quart of duty-free spirits per person, so it hardly ever makes sense to buy more than that amount of hard liquor. But wines and other low-alcohol drinks are taxed at a much lower rate than, say, Scotch. Thus lovers of good sherry, port or Bordeaux might find it worthwhile to lug more than one bottle back to the U.S. Oddly enough, local libations are not necessarily cheapest at home: Beefeater gin sells for $3.80 a quart at London's Heathrow Airport, but for only $2.50 at Paris...
...CHEC provides emergency psychiatric care; group, individual and family therapy and counseling; and a homemaker service for families with physically or emotionally disabled members. It also offers drug counseling, operates a hotline for people in crisis situations, and teaches high school courses to help teen-agers deal with sex, alcohol and drug issues. CHEC is a model of cooperation between the community and professionals to meet the mental health needs of the community...
...entire floor of the Lindemann Center designed for biochemical research remains totally unused because of a money shortage. Furthermore, community mental health workers have found that the more they extend their efforts into the community, the more people they find in need of help. For example, the new alcohol detoxification program at the Cambridge Hospital is already flooded with more applicants than it can handle. Meeting the mental health needs of the Cambridge-Somerville and Harbor Areas will require far more money than is currently available to expand existing programs, establish new ones, do research to develop more effective techniques...
...version avoids any implied endorsement of nonmarital sex. Where the proposed text affirmed that homosexuals are "persons of sacred worth," the conference added an amendment specifying that the practice of homosexuality remains "incompatible with Christian doctrine." The conference also upheld the traditional ban on gambling, but made abstinence from alcohol a commendable personal choice, not a requirement...