Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming majority" of Harvard students have tried drugs, says Dr. Randolph Catlin, chief of mental health services at University Health Services. He attributes the use of drugs to the enormous pressure Harvard puts on its students. "They sometimes take drugs or alcohol to get some relief," he says...
...have felt the euphoric tug of its 20-minute high, the number of "current users" (those who have taken the drug in the past 30 days) has remained constant since 1979, at about 4.3 million. "Drugs come and go," says Donald Ian Mcdonald of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, "and cocaine has seen its period of social acceptability and of harmlessness put behind us now. I'd guess we'll see a relative improvement in the number of young people willing to try cocaine. Certainly the yuppie who has got his head screwed on halfway straight...
...freshman year. "I just choked, I was so scared," he says. "Everybody seemed so smart." Connolly has since earned honors. But Jewett concedes, "The first year and sometimes the first two years are traumatic" -- so traumatic that 1,000 students a year seek psychiatric counseling from Harvard's Mental Health Service...
...Highway 45 in Ulundurpet, a small town in southern India. When she was placed in a ) reformatory for convicted prostitutes in June, five men offered to bail her out. Today she is emaciated, weighing only 62 lbs., her hair is falling out, and she is showing unmistakable signs of mental derangement. The source of the woman's suffering: the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, virus. Doctors at the home want to delay her release, fearing that if she returns to prostitution, she will transmit the AIDS virus to her clients...
...coming a year away. Then he would tell one of his favorite yarns from the Texas hill country about the Army recruiter who went out to scare up some new boys during World War II. He found one big fellow, pronounced him physically fit and submitted him to the mental test...