Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP James L. Holly, M.D. Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP


Letters - Why I Oppose Selling Beer At College Football Games
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August 18, 2019

Colleges Sell Alcohol to Students

When I discovered that my undergraduate school, Northwestern State University, and my community’s Lamar University were beginning the sale of alcohol at athletic events, I was shocked. Of course my wife and I attended our last college football game in 1966.

Why Do I Oppose This

Approximately 1,900 college students die each year from alcohol related issues. Over 600,000 college students experience serious injures annually from alcohol related events.

By far more DUIs and chronic alcoholism occur due to beer drinking than so-called spirits.

Drunk Drivers Use Beer to Achieve Intoxication

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45827343/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/drunk-drivers-more-likely-drink-beer/.

The Dangers of Colkege Alcohol Drinking

https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/resources/college-alcohol-abuse/

The Promotion Of Alcohol at and by Colleges

It is shocking to see how willing colleges are risk the lives of college students for profit in selling alcohol.  

My wife and I have given more than four million dollars to NSU, Lamar, McNeese, Texas A&M and UT Health San Antonio. (None of these issues apply to the Long School of Medicine)   

In that NSU and Lamar choose to place students at risk by the sale of alcohol to students neither school will receive additional funding from us.

It is hard ro believe that we have come to this in America