Word: niaaa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good news: across the U.S., the young are turning away from hard drugs. In another sense, it could not have been worse news: "The switch is on," says Dr. Morris Chafetz, director of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). "Youths are moving from a wide range of other drugs to the most devastating drug-the one most widely misused of all-alcohol...
...alcohol in the U.S. increased 26%-to the equivalent of 2.6 gal. of straight alcohol per adult per year. It is now at an alltime high, probably surpassing the levels during such notoriously wet eras as the pre-Civil War and pre-Prohibition years. Moreover, according to the NIAAA, about one in ten of the 95 million Americans who drink is now either a full-fledged alcoholic or at least a problem drinker (defined by NIAAA as one who drinks enough to cause trouble for himself and society). Uncounted thousands of the problem drinkers are under 21 and, in fact...
...facts gathered by NIAAA about alcohol abuse are as depressing as they are impressive...
...those who are susceptible, U.S. society offers powerful temptations. Ob serves NIAAA'S Morris Chafetz: "There are houses where they don't even say anything to you when you come in the door before they ask, 'What will you have to drink?' " He also notes that "in our crazy-quilt value system, masculinity means that if you can hold a lot of alcohol and seemingly not show its effects, that's somehow a sign of strength." Chafetz points out that in some other countries-Italy and Israel, for example -drinking is an accepted social custom...