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University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1981
Local help available for alcohol abuse
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
T. G.I.F.
Another weekend of partying rolls around tomorrow and although most students who will be celebrating the weekend by drinking do not have a drinking problem, alcoholism has become a more important problem for young people since the early 1970s, according to Sydney Schroeder, a psychiatrist, at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
"Alcohol is again becoming the most commonly abused drug," he said recently. "It's always been a commonly abused drug, but there was a period during the late 1980s and early 1990s before other drugs were more popular."
Students develop drinking problems, he said, when drinking starts interfering with their lives.
Their grades go downhill, they get into fights or they get into trouble with the law.
Schreeder said that many students who had drinking problems came to the clinic to complain about the problems that alcohol was causing in their lives, but they rejected the idea that they might be alcohols.
"It's a form of blindness," he said.
"It's a form of blindness," he said. ALTHOUGH THE clinic counselors work closely with staff, they are usually used to outside agencies for treatment, so no records are kept of
how many students are alcoholics, Schroeder said.
The director of one of the outside treatment agencies, the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism, is Bruce Beale. He said that there were about 12 million problems in the country that the number of problem drinkers bettween the ages of 15 and 30 had increased steadily since the early 1970s.
The average age of alcoholics, which used to be 38, has fallen to 27, he said.
RESEARCHERS ARE still working to discover the cause of alcoholism, Beale said. It may turn out to be a biological problem or a little bit of both.
Some alcoholics appear to be physically addicted to alcohol and depend on it to keep them going, he said.
But too much alcohol may cause alcohol poisoning, which brings on the 'shakes', hallucinations, ideas ofiction. It leaves the drinker exhausted.
Also, alcohols become physically less and less tolerant of alcohol. Although they start out drinking two or three six-packs of beer or a quart of liquor at one sitting, they soon find that the alcohol so them drunk they can't walk, he said.
Not all alcohols are physically dependent on alcohol, Beale said. They may drink only on weekends or special occasions
alcoholics have one thing in common—they cannot control their drinking.
However, he said, the biggest problem that alcoholics face is society's prejudices. There is a stigma attached to alcoholism and alcoholics are attached to other diseases, such as cancer.
"For social drinkers, their drinking does not interfere with their lives," she writes. "But their drinking causes them problems. It may be naive and simple, but it is true."
NEVERTHELESS, he said, all
"If somebody has cancer, they go to the hospital to be treated," Beale said. "Alcoholics are still refusing out of the closet."
FOR STUDENTS who suspect that they have a drinking problem there are six counseling centers available on campus.
They are: Mental Health Clinic, 864-4035; the Psychological Clinical Center, 864-4121; the Student Assistance Center, 864-4064; the University Community Services Center, 864-4141; the University Counseling Center, 864-3931; and the University Information Center, 864-3506.
There are seven off-campus counseling centers.
They are: Alcoholics Anonymous, 842-0119; the Bert Nash Mental Health Center, 843-9192; the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism, 842-9193; the University of Tennessee, 842-8627; Headquarters, Inc., 841-2345; Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 843-6809; and the Women's Transitional Care Services, 841-6887.
Paul Ehrlich, author of the best-selling book "The Population Bomb," will give a free lecture at 8 p.m. on Thursday at drummuff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Author to speak on species extinction
THE CASTLE TEA ROOM
"Extinction," the title of Ehrich's newest book, will also be the title of his lecture, the first in the University Lecture Series this year.
The lecture will deal with how man's neglect, exploitation, greed and the quest of progress are causing insecurities and animal species to become extinct.
Ehrlich, who earned his doctorate in biological sciences in 1958 at the University of Kansas, will also conduct a public seminar on "The Population Biology of Euphydrys Butterflies" at Wednesday in the Union Forum Room.
At 2 p.m. that day, he will autograph
of his book in the Oread Book
Store.
A professor of biological sciences and Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 1969, Ehrlich wrote that the exam 100 scientific papers, a series of textbooks and several other books.
Ehrlich is known for his public statements on the environment, population control and racial justice.
He has received many honors, the latest being the John Muir Award, the highest award given by the Sierra Club.
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