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By CRAIG T.

NEISEScneises@thehawkeye.com WEST BURLINGTON — Underage drinking is a problem in the Burlington area.

Such was the picture painted Tuesday by a panel including law enforcement, drug treatment counselors, clergy, EMTs and a pair of substance abusers.

For 90 minutes, panelists at the Grade A Plus–sponsored Town Hall meeting on underage drinking held at West Burlington City Hall did a very thorough job of framing the issue.

In short supply, however, were solid ideas for change — the sorts of things that could ensure people attending a similar event 20 years from now don't hear the same answers to the same questions.

"You have to keep on educating," said Tim Rich, a Louisa County resident, single dad and former drug user now training at Southeastern Community College to be a drug and alcohol addiction counselor.

"We need warriors." Ideas for what to do about underage drinking, and the problems with other drugs that alcohol abuse can lead to, came back to two main themes: parental vigilance and education about the dangers of alcohol and drug use.

There ...

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Guide Classifieds Real Estate Travel Dining Out Personals Neighborhoods Advertising Rates Deadlines Place a Classified Contact Us Press Releases Event Photos Join Our Email List Forum Addresses Substance Abuse Over Age 50 by Marie-Jo Proulx 2006-03-29 While the rest of the city was parading and partying Irish-style, the Chicago Task Force on LGBT Aging held a round-table discussion on substance abuse, at Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) .

More than 30 attendees from organizations providing healthcare, counseling or social services to LGBT individuals across the Chicagoland region attended the session.

Task Force co-chair Terri Worman began by introducing Dr.

Martin J.

Gorbien, director of the Section of Geriatric Medicine at Rush University Medical Hospital, who did an excellent job of both moderating the discussion and supplementing each panelist’s presentation with insightful commentary and references to research studies.

Gorbien remarked that contrary to the general population, where individuals are categorized as “seniors” at an increasingly later age, the trend in the LGBT community is to consider people old as soon as they...