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Louisiana
NEED In Louisiana
Only 8% of Louisiana adult residents
finding recovery support (Treatment) even less for youth, where
4.5% of Juveniles who need treatment for
alcohol and other drugs find available services.
A mere 32 medical detox beds are available
for 4.4 million residents,
Clean up costs for the lack of treatment and prevention costs Louisiana
more than $8 Billion annually in direct and
indirect costs according to CASA. |
Alcohol
plays a key factor in most college student rapes
WASHINGTON -
Most college rape victims are too intoxicated to give consent to sex or
fight their attackers, a study...shows. Women in college are more
likely to be raped than other women and alcohol plays a key factor, the
study found. One out of 20 college students in the study experienced
rape over a seven-month period, the research showed.
"You could predict that 'party schools' have higher rates of rape," said
Mary Ross, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona,
one of the study's co-authors. "This study points to an urgent need for
more alcohol prevention programs on campuses along with sexual assault
education." Three out of four rapes on campus occurred when
victims were intoxicated, said the analysis of 119 schools across the
nation by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, the
University of Arizona and St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. It
was based on three surveys of women randomly selected by the Harvard
School of Public Health College Alcohol Study and included 8,567 women
in 1997, 8,425 in 1999, and 6,988 in 2001. It found that women at
colleges where there is significant binge drinking were more likely to
be raped while intoxicated than were students at other schools. Students
who are active in fraternities and sororities had a higher incidence of
rape.
"These students are more likely to
be in sexually aggressive environments because of the drinking levels,"
Ross said. "I think parents would like to know about this."
Ross said that among all women who
have ever attended college, between 20 percent and 25 percent have been
raped. This compares to nearly 15 percent of all women, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department.
Ross said women on college campuses
experience a higher incidence of rape than the general population
because of excessive drinking and because rape is age-related. Most
rapes occur between the ages of 18 and 25. ....
By Pamela Brogan
Gannett News Service
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