Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed alcohol ban for the University of Connecticut has sparked controversy among students and faculty at the school, where a series of alcohol-related problems over the past several months has caused administrators to review the existing policy...
...majority of the deaths under investigation were described by the authorities as suicides, often involving alcohol abuse. Others were the result of physical or mental illness. More than half occurred while the victim was in police custody rather than in prison, and many took place within two or three hours of confinement. Among the alleged suicides, details of the deaths are often hauntingly similar. Eddie Murray, 21, hanged himself in 1981 while in custody in the New South Wales hamlet of Wee Waa. Loyed Boney, 28, was found hanged in his cell at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987. Bernard...
...interim report offered 56 specific recommendations to prevent more Aboriginal deaths. Among them: imprisonment for lesser crimes should be used only as a last resort; public drunkenness should be abolished as an offense; treatment centers for alcoholics should be established as soon as possible. The report also suggested a national task force be appointed to examine the effects of alcohol abuse on Aborigines, a particular source of trouble for these indigenous people...
When Boston TV news reporter Dennis Kauff was killed in a drunk driving accident three years ago, local reporters "were enraged," and decided to try to bring attention to the problem, says Jay A. Winsten, director of the Harvard Center for Health Communication and the Harvard Alcohol Project...
...last December, thanks to the new emphasis on drunk driving, the Harvard Alcohol Project--which uses the media to fight drunk driving--was founded. Since the establishment of the Project, Winsten has continued to use WBZ as "a local television laboratory" for his national goals, says Giulmartin...