Word: alcoholizing
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...very topic--which is why it's particularly ironic that she's a cocaine addict today. More than 30 years ago, Gwen--who prefers to keep it to one name when discussing her addiction--spent her days teaching in the Virginia school system and drafting the schools' drug-and-alcohol-abuse curriculum. She spent her nights researching the subject firsthand...
...started using alcohol and pot in college," she says. "Then I turned to sniffing cocaine and freebasing. By the time I began teaching, I was spending big-time money. My body knew that I got out of school at 3:30 every day, and then I'd have to go out and get my drugs...
...long-term study, published in May 2001 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, followed 581 male heroin users from 1962 to 1997. Nearly half the subjects were dead by the time the study ended. Of those still alive, many were self-medicating with multiple other illicit drugs or alcohol and 67% smoked cigarettes. Not surprisingly, heroin users suffer from a wide range of medical ills, including hypertension, liver and pulmonary diseases and HIV. But the most common cause of death from heroin is overdose, with 22% of the subjects in the long-term study dying that way. Some...
Students will soon begin receiving personalized birthday cards—complete with statistics about alcohol-related social norms at Harvard—from the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services just before their 21st birthdays, in one of several new initiatives planned for the coming semester by Director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services Ryan M. Travia. According to Travia, the cards will inform students that 69 percent of students at the college eat before and/or during drinking according to undergraduates’ responses to the National College Health Assessment (NCHA)—a survey administered to students...
Then I entered college and woke up. I discovered that I had been tricked into believing that invitations to tea and lunch would magically fall into my lap, that the most memorable part of college was the interaction with great minds rather than the interaction with alcohol, and that the direction I was to take in life would be a clear one as soon as I met the right people who would tell me just exactly what it was that I was supposed to do. The truth of the matter is I’ve barely...