AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1974 83-1 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania, Chairman HENRY A. NEIL, Jr., FREDERICK F. PFLUGER, and ROBERT L. KNISELY, Staff Assistants PART 7 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS (Continued in Part 8) Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1974 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania, Chairman WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky NEAL SMITH, Iowa BOB CASEY, Texas EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin EDITH GREEN, Oregon ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois HENRY A. NEIL, Jr., FREDERICK F. PFLUGER, and ROBERT L. KNISELY, Staff Assistants PART 7 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER 96-712 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1973 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana GUNN MCKAY, Utah TOM BEVILL, Alabama EDITH GREEN, Oregon ROBERT O. TIERNAN, Rhode Island BILL D. BURLISON, Missouri ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan J. KENNETH ROBINSON, Virginia NOTE. This Surveys and Investigations supervisory staff is supplemented by select personnel borrowed on a reimbursable basis for varying lengths of time from vario agencies to staff up specific studies and investigations. The current average annual fu time personnel equivalent is approximately 42. GERARD J. CHOUINARD PAUL V. FARMER SANDRA A. GILBERT EVA K. HARRIS VIRGINIA MAY KEYSER MARCIA L. MATTS ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AUSTIN G. SMITH RANDOLPH THOMAS BETTY A. SWANSON SHARON K. TINSLEY GEMMA M. WEIBLINGER S ST QUALITY CONTROL MARK DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1974 TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS Mr. FLOOD. The committee will come to order. We will begin the presentation by the public witnesses for the HEW Subcommittee. The first subject we have is "Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism." The first witness is Dr. William Simpson, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kans. Proceed. Dr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, as the newly elected president of the National Council on Alcoholism, it is a privilege to appear before this distinguished committee this morning to acquaint you with the facts regarding the administration's inexplicable emasculation of the national alcoholism program. Since the National Council on Alcoholism has testified before your committee in both 1971 and 1972, in the interests of time I will not repeat the shattering figures on the incidence of alcoholism in this country. However, just a month ago, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, appointed by President Nixon, with the addition of two Members from the Senate and two Members from the House, issued a report covering 2 years of study and field hearings, stating flatly that "Alcohol is the most widely used and most abused drug in the United States today." The National Commission, headed by Raymond P. Shafer, the former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, summarized 482 pages of findings in this significant quote: It is estimated that over 9 million Americans are alcoholics, that over 50 perleent of our crimes are alcohol related, and that over 50 percent of our highway "accidents are alcohol related. And these figures don't take into consideration the other social harms that result from alcoholism, such as absenteeism from work, family arguments and disputes, and other social costs that are caused because of the misuse of alcohol. We hear a lot today about the fact that the youth of our country are involved in the usage of marihuana and many other abusive drugs. The Shafer report took this data into consideration, but still came out with the flat statement that the most dangerous and widely used drug |