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...problem, preparing alcohol-management plans, cracking down on liquor suppliers who break the law, and providing social services to help mitigate the damage. But if things in Borroloola are any guide, none of it is working. Despite constant pleas for government assistance from the town's council, health clinic, businesses and residents, the epidemic of binge drinking and violence continues. Nearly every week, some 30 people, most of them Aboriginal, seek treatment at the town's clinic for alcohol-related problems. Violent cases account for almost 9 in 10 after-hours admissions. Most common are injuries caused by stabbings, bashings...
...Staff at the health clinic, and many other residents, say the town's only hotel, the Borroloola Inn, feeds the mayhem by serving people who are obviously drunk. The operators say the unfair accusations have driven them to put the pub up for sale. "The hotel in any Aboriginal community is probably looked on as a monster," says Christopher Taylor, the licensee's husband. To limit the risk of problems, he says, closing time on Sundays has been brought forward...
...office every week with tender, warm boils of pus on their buttocks, legs, arms and even foreheads. Ten years ago these infections were rare and quickly treated with a shot of antibiotics in the office and a short course of oral medicine. But today's children return to the clinic day after day for incision and drainage of their abscesses while we wait for the first or perhaps second oral antibiotic to treat the infection...
...mental health treatment to the 140 primary care physicians, out of 617, who had returned. With 96 inpatient psychiatry beds, the Medical Center of Louisiana - better known as Charity Hospital - was once the city's biggest mental health care provider. Now, it dispenses emergency care from a makeshift clinic housed in a former Lord & Taylor department store. The heavily flooded hospital may never reopen...
...Townsend, head of LSUHSC's Behavioral Research Clinic, says part of the problem boils down to bricks and mortar. "We literally do not have a lot of buildings to put beds in right now," he says. Despite the physicians' best attempts to gauge the scope of the looming disaster, much is still unknown - the real suicide rate, much less how many people are even living in the city. Says Townsend, "All I know is there are a lot of people in emergency rooms all over town who aren't able to be admitted and are just kind of hanging...