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Published: September 29th, 2009 11:40 AM Last Modified: September 29th, 2009 11:41 AM
Link: The Tundra Drums Anchorage economist David Marshall, who has studied suicide and accidental death in village Alaska, writes that voter approval of alcohol sales in upcoming Bethel and Kotzebue referendums will be result in disaster: " It will raise accidental deaths and suicides, homicides, other violent crimes, and law-enforcement incidents of all sorts. ... One wonders if the needs of the ... residents who want to be able to drink when they choose can be met in some other way than by having bars and liquor stores established."