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Titolo: Perché l'Italia è un Paese immaturo

Caro Severgnini,
L'Italia - ahim� - � un Paese immaturo perch�:
Ai giovani gli adulti danno ben poca fiducia
Ingenuamente si crede che il cosiddetto �esame di maturit� attesti la 
maturit� dei giovani che invece � indipendente dalle nozioni e dallo studio
Le famiglie iperproteggono i figli, non lasciandoli liberi di crescere
La gestione dell'etica � ancora ampiamente nelle mani della Chiesa, non � 
interiorizzata dai singoli individui
Il primo ministro - facendo vedere i filmini che lo ritraggono con il 
presidente americano - si comporta come un adolescente che fa vedere i 
muscoli alle amiche
La competizione in campo professionale non � un valore, quando c'� � 
considerata una necessit�
Non � ancora chiaro che le tasse sono alla base della convivenza sociale
Sono ancora diffusi miti sul nostro passato, quando la dura realt� dice che 
il Risorgimento � stato condotto da qualche migliaio di individui e alla 
Resistenza antifascista hanno partecipato meno di 200 mila persone
Resistono le ideologie, caso unico in Occidente: alle ultime elezioni ancora 
falci e martelli e fiamme tricolori
Le donne sono marginali nella vita politica ed economica, � preoccupante il 
fiorire di neologismi quali veline, badanti, cubiste etc
Lo stato di abbandono delle scuole, delle universit� e della ricerca � il 
segno che gli adulti o non sono tali o hanno abdicato al proprio ruolo.
E se l'unica via d'uscita fossero modeste, ma sincere, rivoluzioni 
personali?
Giovanni Paoli, 
giovann...@skynet.be
 

 
A caso:
College Alcohol Problems Exceed Previous Estimates, USA
Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs
Article Date: 19 Mar 2005 - 3:00 PDT
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The harm caused by alcohol consumption among college students may exceed 
previous estimates of the problem. Researchers report that unintentional 
fatal injuries related to alcohol increased from about 1,500 in 1998 to 
more than 1,700 in 2001 among U.S. college students aged 18-24. Over the 
same period national surveys indicate the number of students who drove 
under the influence of alcohol increased by 500,000, from 2.3 million to 
2.8 million. The new findings appear in the 2005 issue of the Annual 
Review of Public Health, now online at 
arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/publhealth
.
"This paper underscores what we had learned from another recent study - 
that excessive alcohol use by college-aged individuals in the U.S. is a 
significant source of harm," said Ting-Kai Li, M.D., Director of the 
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the 
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"The magnitude of problems posed by excessive drinking among college 
students should stimulate both improved measurement of these problems 
and efforts to reduce them," added the report's lead author Ralph W. 
Hingson, Sc.D, Professor at the Boston University School of Public 
Health and Center to Prevent Alcohol Problems Among Young People.
As a member of the NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking, Dr. Hingson and 
other researchers reported in 2002 that alcohol contributed to an 
estimated 1,400 injury deaths among college students age 18-24 in 1998. 
A subsequent change in college census methodology that increased the 
estimated number of 18-24 year olds who were college students in 1998 
led to an upward revision of that estimate to about 1,500 deaths. The 
same methods were used to calculate the 2001 estimates in the current 
review article.
Dr. Hingson and colleagues from the Schools of Public Health at Boston 
University and Harvard University gathered information about drinking 
and its consequences among college students for the year 2001. Their 
analyses included data from the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, and the Harvard College Alcohol 
Survey, as well as national coroner studies and census and college 
enrollment data for 18-24 year olds. They compared the 2001 data with 
similar analyses of 1998 data that they published in 2002.
"In both 1998 and 2001 more than 500,000 students were unintentionally 
injured because of drinking and more than 600,000 were assaulted by 
another student who had been drinking," said Dr. Hingson. "We must 
remember, however, that since the 18-24 year old non-college population 
vastly outnumbers the college population, they actually account for more 
alcohol-related problems than do college students. For example, while 
2.8 million college students drove under the influence of alcohol in 
2001, so too did 4.5 million college-aged persons who were not in college."
Dr. Hingson and his colleagues propose data collection practices that 
they believe would improve future analyses of the consequences of 
college drinking. For example, they call for alcohol testing in every 
injury death in the United States.
"The data already collected on the numbers of alcohol-related fatal 
crashes annually in each state has proven invaluable to researchers 
seeking to study the effects of state-level legislative interventions to 
reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths," they note. "Unfortunately, 
without comprehensive testing for alcohol and determination of college 
student status of all persons who die from falls, drownings, poisoning, 
homicide, suicide, and any other kind of injury, we lack the most 
dependable yardstick by which to measure the magnitude of 
alcohol-related fatal injuries among college students, and whether this 
figure is changing over time."
The researchers conclude that greater enforcement of the legal drinking 
age of 21 and zero tolerance laws, increases in alcohol taxes, and wider 
implementation of screening and counseling programs, and comprehensive 
community interventions are among the strategies that can reduce college 
drinking and associated harm to students and others.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a component of 
the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services, conducts and supports approximately 90 percent of the U.S. 
research on the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of 
alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and alcohol problems and disseminates 
research findings to general, professional, and academic audiences. 
Additional alcohol research information and publications are available 
at 
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
.
Contact: John Bowersox
jbow...@mail.nih.gov
301-443-2857
NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov

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