Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting with watered-down sherry, the students would receive gradually stronger doses of alcohol as they grew older. They would also be instructed in the benefits of social drinking and warned of the consequences of too much alcohol...
Although more people will drink, the "practice drinking" plan should actually diminish total consumption of alcohol by reducing the number of heavy drinkers, Chafetz said...
...Communist-encircled city not only produces 20% of West Germany's bottled cheer, but also consumes it at the elbow-straining pace of 18 fifths per year per person-double the rate in the rest of the country. Last week the 15-year-old oasis of cheap alcohol was drying up, the victim of a forthcoming New Year's tax increase. Long queues of customers stood through hail, sleet and snow to snap up West Berlin's stocks of liquor in a frenzied Christmas shopping rush. Tavernkeepers and restaurant owners bid up the rent of cellars...
Students countered that they saw no difference between the social effects of marijuana and those of alcohol. "There is nothing to say," declared one student, "that someone who takes pot is going to become an Alan Ginsberg anymore than someone who drinks is going to become a Sarah Churchill...
With Dr. A. W. Pearson, Medical Director of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Clinic, Dr. Taylor is currently observing 150 alcoholics under treatment, and so far has found similar results. In New York, Dr. J. Martin Semer, who is making a parallel study, reports with enthusiasm: "This is the first indication that a chemical can do anything more than make a patient sick when he drinks." Metronidazole, for still unclear reasons, mounts a two-pronged attack, working on both the mind and the body. Like Antabuse, it can leave a drinker violently nauseated, but before that happens it cuts down on alcohol...