Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientific promise, however, should not eclipse the importance of public policy efforts to curb heavy drinking among adults -- and stop it altogether among youngsters and adolescents. Education is one approach. The Government's "Be Smart" campaign, aimed at eight-to-twelve-year-olds, has had some success. Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been a primary factor in the fight that has raised drinking ages from 18 to 21 in 34 states plus the District of Columbia since 1982. Despite strong opposition from the alcohol industry, which lobbies vigorously against higher excise taxes for alcohol and warning labels on beer, wine...
Alcoholism's toll is frightening. Cirrhosis of the liver kills at least 14,000 alcoholics a year. Drunk drivers were responsible for approximately half the 46,000 driving fatalities in the U.S. in 1986. Alcohol was implicated in up to 70% of the 4,000 drowning deaths last year and in about 30% of the nearly 30,000 suicides. A Department of Justice survey estimates that nearly a third of the nation's 523,000 state-prison inmates drank heavily before committing rapes, burglaries and assaults. As many as 45% of the country's more than 250,000 homeless...
Liquor licenses are capped, officials say, because Central Square has been plagued with alcohol problems. One-fourth of all drunk driving arrests in the city occur in Central Square, McDavitt said...
...citizen has broken at one time or another. If law is the issue, then the press ought to be asking public figures not "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" but "Have you ever broken the law, any law?" We could start with "Do you speed?" Or "Have you ever driven drunk?" Or "Did you ever read pornography before the relevant Supreme Court rulings that made it legal?" And, for the bolder reporter, "Have you ever engaged in any variety of carnality prohibited by state law at the time?" If lawbreaking is really the issue, then focusing on marijuana use seems...
...steal alcohol, the older brother comes across a drunk, who asks his name but then tells...