It Sure Sounds Like Hazing
“It helps recruit students if the college has a reputation as someplace you can party,” he said. “But nobody wants to be known as the place where kids are likely to get in trouble. That scares away the parents.”
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 23, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“It helps recruit students if the college has a reputation as someplace you can party,” he said. “But nobody wants to be known as the place where kids are likely to get in trouble. That scares away the parents.”
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 7, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 13, 2022 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 30, 2021 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 27, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 30, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 19, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Americans have spent the last year indulging in more drinking than before, blaming it on the pandemic, lockdowns, etc. Are we really ready to give that up?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 13, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
I suppose he was happy for people to see him as pigheaded, since it covered up the real problem: His rapidly deteriorating cognitive function.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 14, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
Considering the number of cognitive errors involved, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand why so many first offenders are eventually arrested for a second offense.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 28, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
Every so often I’d run into family members who’d let the situation go in the belief that treatment was futile until the drinker themselves decided they ‘wanted’ to quit.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 10, 2020 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
Anyway, it’s clear from this and a host of other examples that for some offenders at least, simple incarceration is never enough.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 21, 2020 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
After the third incident, the doc gave him an ultimatum – either get help or face a taper off the program.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 18, 2020 | Public Health | 0 |
But Russians (again like Americans) tend to view the liquor store as an essential business.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 10, 2020 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
I think it was hard for most of us to accept that elements within business, industry, and even government were deliberately influencing Mike’s choice.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 15, 2019 | Public Policy | 0 |
Alcohol still gets credit for close to 90,000 deaths every year– more than other drugs, even in the middle of an epidemic.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 11, 2019 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
It can be flagrant or subtle, but damage it will be. Sadly, the drinker is usually the last one to become aware of it. In fact, many never do.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 20, 2018 | Prevention, Public Policy | 1 |
We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 25, 2018 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Of course, the drinker isn’t aware of having entered a blackout. Far as they’re concerned, things are proceeding as normal.
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