Article March 15, 1993 Issue

POSITIVE PRESS

Gina Kolata

The New York Times

From The New York Times, January 1, 1991

"Temperance: An Old Cycle Repeats Itself"

By Gina Kolata

"...The nation's tolerance for cigarette smoking is growing thin, and the use of drugs like marijuana and cocaine has gone from glamorous to despicable in a few short years, social scientists have found.

"In fact, experts say, America is in the midst of a major new temperance movement, the third in its history.

" 'There has been a significant shift away from accepting drugs as being normal, as being with it, as being chic,' said Dr. Mitchell S. Rosenthal, president of Phoenix House Foundation, a drug treatment and education center in New York, and chairman of the Governor's Advisory Council on Drug Abuse."

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