Word: harmfulness
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...their community as a "war zone." But from afar, their battle wounds seem self-inflicted. In Third World war zones, combatants have no real alternative to war. For the child soldier in Burma or Afghanistan, there are no Big Brothers or child psychologists laboring to keep them out of harm's way. American inner-city kids, like those of Belfast, do have alternatives to gang shootings and street riots. Those opportunities may seem faint, but society does provide American and Northern Irish children with a semblance of choice...
...become a pressing issue because the very technology that can save infants often inflicts profound ; handicaps, such as blindness, cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders. Among the effects of erring on the side of life, say the authors: "We save some who would otherwise have died, we do immediate harm to and inflict long- term suffering on many who survive, and we expend an enormous amount of money on neonatal intensive care...
Critics charge that Carnes has vandalized the scientific concept of addiction and is using it to develop a pop psychology. They say the treatment does not necessarily get at the root cause of the behavior and may harm some people more than help them. "Addiction is used so interchangeably with everything that it loses its meaning," says Robert Csandl, who runs sex- offender and substance-abuse treatment programs in Allentown, Pa. "Even if you're using the word addiction metaphorically, it blurs good assessment, which is essential to starting appropriate treatment." Johns Hopkins researcher John Money sees the focus...
...import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they are producing," says Richard Wintory, director of the National Drug Prosecution Center...
Like disabled people in hundreds of small towns across the nation, Westfield fears that the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed overwhelmingly by the House last week and expected to be signed into law by the President in July, will unintentionally harm those it is designed to help. Widely viewed as the most sweeping civil rights measure in more than 25 years, the act offers the nation's 43 million disabled new employment opportunities and greater access to public accommodations, transit systems and communications networks. Until the law goes into effect, handicapped people are protected by only a patchwork of state...