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...when drug abuse in this age group has been declining. The University of Michigan survey, taken in 1990, found that only 27% of the seniors had smoked marijuana in the past year, compared with 49% of seniors who took part in a 1980 poll. Andrew McGuire, head of the Trauma Foundation at San Francisco General Hospital, says "alcohol abuse is the No. 1 health problem of young people in America...
...kids start drinking in their teens, they usually keep on doing it in college, unless some trauma intervenes. The federal Office of Substance Abuse Prevention reports that undergraduates currently spend $4.2 billion a year on booze -- far more than they spend on textbooks. Nearly three-fourths of all college students drink at least once a month, says the Department of Health and Human Services, and 41% of them indulge in heavy drinking -- that is, four or five drinks in a row -- at least once every two weeks. Many of those students are still underage. Academic officials say booze is almost...
...emergency room is supposed to be the place you go when you break a leg, cut your hand or have a dangerously high fever. The trauma center is designed for ultra-emergencies such as car accidents or head injuries--only the most life-threatening cases. Neither is meant to deliver babies or shelter the homeless. And neither can afford to put drug dealers and gang members back on the streets, only to lose another $100,000 the next time someone shoots them...
Recent studies scream loudly about the trauma care crisis and call for congressional action. The less that politicians are willing to compromise and the less that the American taxpayers are willing to pay taxes to solve the problems of drugs, AIDS, homelessness, handgun control and poverty, the more emergency rooms are going to close down...
...members of Congress--all from urban districts--have given the issue enough thought to come up with a handful of proposals. Most of these proposed solutions involved pumping millions of dollars into the system: Rep. Dante Fascell (D--Fla.) suggested channelling seied drug dealers' assets into trauma care; Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman's bill would give financial help to hospitals in the cities with the worst drug-related violence...