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Show Prevention, Intervention si Key To Alcohol Control .1. "u.'rp father he knew she was nni,. . pr ment is mammoth. ''We' going to absolutely have o wipe out the advantage ot alcohol. al-cohol. Until we get the share ot money the media get for alcohol, alco-hol, we're up against the pressure press-ure from the industry. "THEY'RE HUGE. Here we are with a switch trying to drive an elephant. It's going to get out of hand more and more. We don't have thenioney to give (to treatment)." "Tight money" is hitting agencies throughout the gov-rnment, gov-rnment, as illustrated by Board Chairman Richard Youngberg who said his office, the state department of rehabilitation, is now turning away people it used to treat. ALCOHOL IS advertised through direct and indirect means, Dr.. Williams said, noting not-ing alcohol interest also pay for movie ads. "It's a macho thing shows adultness. If you can drink, you're an adult." Recalling an airplane trip he said, "1 once saw a father lie (about his daughter's age) to get her a drink," although she refused the drink, telling her lather he knew she was only jiamPer 16' merchan "IT'S A very real thing. Yon see the amount of money i0 0' produce the, market, the pro. sooH duct." he said, and with the nomy a number in th county apparent- .th 1 ly needing treatment, there's 8 Lme only $300,000 available. The ve P v problem's gone beyond just r', being considered (by some) as plot of a moral question or problem, mall site More money is spent lob. tie sho bying the legislature in support L, .he of alcoholic interests than the , entire Davis County drug and alcohol budget. Dr. Williams added. MR. "WE HAVE to take this lhat he issue and stand as a board," ' ; Com. Eberhard said. "It isn'i ants enough to go into the schools" reason ' and teach alcohol and drug use malls W prevention, "although that's support good." he continued. "We're .jj told by some that at least 70 s M percent of crimes are commit-ted commit-ted under the influence of alcohol." town m Meanwhile. Mr. Kelly said propos there were 274 admissions to tween I the various alcohol and drug treatment programs during ,,, 1981. noting a lot of those are 1 youth. downtc cause Malls: By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON A! a recent re-cent national institute of alcohol alco-hol convention only two drinks were served they were both alcoholic. THAT COULD be indicative of the elephant force behind alcoholic promotion and trying to conrol it, the Davis County Mental Health Advisory Board was told, last week, during dur-ing their monthly meeting in Farmington. In a report on the county's alcohol and drug prevention programs, Program Director Jim Kelly said loking to the future, fu-ture, "The big words seem to be prevention and intervention (through) a whole lot of effort." By centering on those who need prevention they can perhaps be kept from turning into chronic cases, which would be likely within ten years. A RECENT report indicated 34 percent of the county's adults drink at least some alcohol, alco-hol, with ten percent of that figure admitting they had an alcoholic problem. "It's difficult to get to all these people. I'm happy to see them coming in (for treatment) but we need more money" to allow for treatment of more needing help, he said, with the board told there are one or two "in the" needing assistance for every person receiving treatment. But at the same time, insurance doesn't cover drug and alcohol treatment. MOST OF the staff is working work-ing 50-60 hours a week and not getting paid overtime wages, Mr. Kelly added. Speaking of the costs for treatment, Mental Health Director Russell Williams said the tab runs to $168 a day for in-patient and $55 for transitional transi-tional care at the county's Layton facility while the Clearfield Alcohol Recovery Center charge is $31, HE EMPHASIZED those charges aren't all for high salaries, but pay for some of the many kinds of equipment needed as well as for types of treatment necessary in the higher-priced programs. But County Com. Ernest Eberhard said the job of treat- |