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...another as a basis for prevention of alcohol and drug abuse. Syracuse University is at the forefront of scientifically based approaches to this nationwide issue. It is important for you to emphasize our commitment to this problem, because the media play a significant role in public health education. DESSA BERGEN-CICO Associate Dean of Students Syracuse University Syracuse...
...local hospital owing to acute intoxication. Some suffered from alcohol poisoning and needed a stomach pumping; others had fractured bones after drunken tumbles. A handful sought treatment for sexual assault. "Our women are drinking one for one with men, but they're coming in much more damaged," says Dessa Bergen-Cico, the university's associate dean of students. "We're seeing a real role shift going on here...
Syracuse University has opted for a more touchy-feely approach. The school sends young female health educators to brief sororities on the dangers of excessive drinking. Associate dean Bergen-Cico presided over a recent session for 40 members of Alpha Chi Omega. Among other things, she told them what many already knew from personal experience: weight-conscious women tend to skip meals before drinking, to conserve calories, making them more easily affected by alcohol. One simple solution: make sure they eat a hearty meal before they hit the bars. Patrick Kilcarr of Georgetown finds that nutrition information...
...year-old patient named Dov spent the war in Bergen-Belsen and came to Shaar Menashe after 40 years of treatment for depression in a private hospital, where he was given as many as 30 pills a day. "They used to take all my energy with their medicines," he says. "Why did they give me all those drugs?" Heath Minister Dahan said last week that he'd been to Shaar Menashe, apologizing to the survivors "in the name of the state of Israel and the Jewish people...
...Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden" by Peter L. Bergen...