Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 50% of the inmates in U.S. county jails. These statistics do not include arrests for drunken driving or assaults caused by drinking. Arrests for plain public drunkenness total about 26,000 a year in San Francisco, 66,000 in Chicago, 80,000 in Los Angeles-while chronic drunks travel an endless circuit from gutter to cell to gutter before their final trip to the morgue. "It is hard to imagine a drearier example of the futile use of penal sanctions," says New York's Chief City Magistrate John M. Murtagh. In New York, at least, the courts...
Washington's judges have the option of hospitalizing chronic drunks. Yet no such referral has occurred since 1962, for the simple reason that the law requires "adequate treatment facilities"-something Congress has not provided. The city's rehabilitation clinic has facilities only for outpatients; the city's general hospital has beds for only 30 acute alcoholics. As a result, Washington spends $2,000,000 a year tossing drunks in the workhouse along with thieves and gamblers; the money might better be used for a treatment center. The setup "stinks," fumes Washington Corrections Department Director Donald Clemmer...
...caught only three passes that year, but was scheduled to move into the starting left end spot this fall. He started the first game, against Massachusetts, but a recurrence of a chronic shoulder injury in that game put him on the bench for two weeks...
...told a convention of nurses at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, "have seen the patient who is slowly dying of a chronic, debilitating illness and has been placed in the room farthest from the center of the ward. The doctors drop in briefly during rounds, glance at his chart, and leave almost immediately. The general attitude of the ward is: There's really nothing we can do for him-after all, he's dying anyway.' " This attitude is as appalling to many physicians as it is to just about all ministers of religion. But what...
McKay has a chronic leg injury and may not be at top speed Saturday, but he is expected to start. And his passing ability means that Harvard can't concentrate on stopping Iacavazzi...