Word: alcoholic
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...links alcohol creates on a college campus are also worthy of note. According to statistics from SAMHSA, over half of binge drinkers are current smokers, another piece of evidence that smokers are many times more likely to abuse alochol or illicit drugs. Additionally, over 3,000 minors begin smoking every day, and the pattern of addiction is particularly strong. According to these figures, over one-third of those who are "experimenting" end up addicted...
...were of age to drink, but we just watched our other friends drink. Some girls got so drunk, they had to sit in the corner. The rest of us had Coke. Or you know what I drink?"--Vicky flashed her trademark grin--"I drink pina colalda, but without the alcohol," she said. "And I watch them sit in the corner and I dance and dance and dance." Now she stays at home with Katerina. "We're going to be home this New Year's Eve. We don't go out now. The family gets together and we play cards instead...
Charles H. Yoo was pledge leader for the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity in September 1997 when Scott Krueger, a freshman pledge, died of alcohol-poisoning at a fraternity party...
...withdrew recognition of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity Monday because of an incident on Sept. 2 in which its members allegedly served alcohol to an underage Wellesley College student who was later hospitalized with alcohol poisoning...
...week of the bizarre world of high school. To your great credit, you unmasked many of the problems in American schools--persecution by administrators of people who "don't fit in," a quickness to medicate anyone with a problem--along with many of the concerns of my parents' generation (alcohol and drug abuse, premarital sex). GEOFFREY HUGHES Winston-Salem...