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THE ANNUAL back-to-school surveys of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University seek to identify situations and characteristics that increase or decrease the risk that a [...]

THE RECENT REPORT OF The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities, reveals […]

Presents a speech by Joseph A. Califano Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, delivered to the Economic Club of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan on April 7, 1986. Importance of reducing unwarranted variations in the practice of medicine; Evidence supporting the need to overhaul the medical malpractice system; Effect of the aging of the U.S. population on health care costs.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Various responses to Jacob Weisberg's piece on the publishing industry; Responses to Weisberg's negative comments about book editors, including Alice Mayhew, Jason Epstein of Random House, Aaron Asher and others.

If ever the sum is greater than the parts, it is in combining the power of God, religion and spirituality with the power of science and professional medicine to prevent [...]

For the first time in the nation's various wars on drugs, the scientific, political and spiritual stars are aligned for a revolution to balance and strengthen all four legs of [...]

What happens across the kitchen table has a far greater influence on whether American adolescents smoke pot or snort cocaine than what happens across the Mexican border. America's best hope [...]

RESTORATION Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. By George F. Will. 260 pp. New York: The Free Press. $19.95. GEORGE F. WILL, who is among the most [...]

Focuses on the act of reporters for shield legislation to protect them from revealing their sources and unpublished notes after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Branzburg case. Report that as a result of its disappointment and understandable concern with Branzburg, much of the press decided to move their battle to the Congress; View that there are other more significant aspects to the Court's decision, which should give the press some second thoughts about jousting with First Amendment rights on the legislative turf; Details of the case; View that Branzburg firmly hitches First Amendment protection to the news gathering function of the press; Description of several other cases; Role of the Congress in this matter; View that the central right at stake here is the right of the public to be informed, the right of the press to publish is part of and in essential fulfillment of that right.

Comments on the government plan to achieve an all-volunteer military by offering pay rates high enough to attract sufficient manpower. Cost estimates for achieving an all-volunteer force and the program's impact on the national budget; Details of manpower cost explanations on the issue; Implications on the budget and the armed forces.

The physician-assisted living movement is a call to our medical community to give the same dedicated attention to the quality of death that it has given to the quality of [...]

The article looks at the Catholic Church's annulment process. Like many divorced and remarried Catholics, I looked down on the church's annulment process, viewing it as cover for Catholic divorce, a process tinged with hypocrisy, reserved for the rich and powerful. Then one day, Walter Modrys, my pastor at the Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola in New York, said to me: "You have mentioned several times you were not married in the Catholic Church. It obviously bothers you. Why do you not seek an annulment?" An annulment would end any remaining estrangement from the church. Sister Amadeus suggested that I read a book, "Annulment: Your Chance to Remarry Within the Catholic Church," by Joseph Zwack. I have often thought about the stigma attached to annulments: that they were granted only to the biggest donors or most famous members of the church. Most of my friends, and many if not most Catholics, think of the church's annulment process as some kind of mumbo jumbo, a sop to the large number of Catholics who have divorced and remarried, especially those with money or contacts in the church hierarchy. Going through the spiritual, psychological and emotional process of reflection on my first marriage and why it did not work out, and then entering into a sacramental marriage with my second wife within my church, gave me a peace of mind and soul I have never before known.

Focuses on the result of a three-year study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse on the high rates of the number of cases of substance use among girls. Implications of the failure to recognize and act on these social problem; Ways by which girls can access drugs; Consequences of substance abuse.

Comments on the United States Republican and Democratic political conventions for 2000. Discussion on political speeches; Details on the process of conducting polls; Status of electioneering in the U.S.

This article presents letters to the editor of "BusinessWeek," regarding letters published in previous issues of the magazine. Letters were printed in responses to the following articles: "A break for the defense," "THIS MAN WANTS to heal health care," "What business owes Rosa Parks," "Leader of the packs," and others.

Explores the truth behind the conservative myths of the Great Society program by former United States Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. Role of the Society in the urbanization of the population and nationalization of commercial power; How the Society created racial justice and eliminated poverty.

LEAD: JUST AS HISTORY teaches that war is too important to be left to generals, so recent American experience teaches that medicine is too important to be left to doctors [...]

LEAD: WHEN GEORGE BUSH TAKES THE oath of office later this month, all Americans will share a moment of celebration, offering our new President prayers and good wishes as he [...]

Recounts the author's experiences as a student in the former Brooklyn Preparatory School, a Jesuit high school in New York City, in the 1940s. Football; Yearbook; Writing gossip columns; Senior retreat at Mount Manresa; Influence of Jesuits to the author.

Focuses on the ethical and moral issues faced by the medical community in relation to biomedical research. Offer of enhancing or decreasing genetic odds by scientific geniuses; Dangers humanity face in the future as results of researches; Impact of man's obsession to prolong life and production of flawless children on civic civility.

Opinion. Comments on the controversy concerning the passage of initiatives in Arizona and California that allow doctors to recommend marijuana and other drugs for serious illnesses. Similarities and differences between the Arizona and the California initiatives; Voters' opposition against making marijuana available for any illness.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comment on the editorial "The Age of Credulity," published in the December 2, 1978 issue; Statement that the article "Poetry Cornered," published in the November 25 issue presented an inaccurate picture of American poetry; Discussion of jogging in the article "Washington Diarist," published in the November 25 issue.

Presents the responses of some well-known drug experts and parents to a question about how they talk to their children about marijuana use. Quotes from an evangelist, a state senator from California, a cabinet official and others.

The article reports on the prison policy in the U.S. It notes that the population of prisoners with drug and alcohol problems are increasing in the prison and there are no policies firm policies to counter them. It mentions that just like prisoners with chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension, drug and alcohol addiction are considered as complex disease. According to Pope John Paul II, punishment and imprisonment mean something if prisoners are provided means to change themselves.

Discusses the role of parents in the prevention of substance abuse by their teenage children. Results of a survey of substance abuse by young people in the U.S.; Criticisms against the attitude of parents toward the prevalence of drug abuse in U.S. schools; Ways of influencing the behavior of teenagers.

Presents an article about the dilemma faced by a U.S. Catholic public servant with regard to the implementation of public policies contrary to his religious beliefs. Opposition of Catholic bishops to the birth control policy; Criticism on the ill intentions of political parties in the imposition of abortion litmus test; Enactment of a law that permitted Medicaid funding of abortions.

Advocates the treatment and training of alcohol and drug abusers and addicts in prisons in the United States (US). Details on prisoners in the US; Estimated costs of giving intensive treatment, education and job training to a prison inmate; Potential crime reduction as a result.

Focuses on the plight of abused and neglected children of drug- and alcohol-abusing parents. Information on the two-year analysis by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University; Effects of parental substance abuse on the system of child welfare in the United States (US); Costs of parental substance abuse and addiction; Barriers to getting such parents into treatment; Threat posed by such parents on the children's development.

Focuses on several misconceptions and facts about drug legalization in the United States. Decline in the number of drug users; Using drugs as an adult decision; Legalization of drugs as a means to reduce crime and social problems.

Discusses the moral issues confronted by the tobacco industry. Study of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse regarding smoking; Reason the United States Senate killed a legislation on the taxation of cigarettes; Reasons presented by the industry in selling cigarettes.

Comments on the national policy of using imprisonment for punishment in United states. Prison population in the state; Information about a report of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) on prison population; Cost of rehabilitation of inmates.