SUBSTANCE ABUSE UP FOLLOWING ATTACKS

NEW YORK -- Manhattan residents drank more alcohol and smoked more
cigarettes and marijuana after Sept. 11, according to a study.

Researchers at the York Academy of Medicine surveyed nearly 1,000 Manhattan
residents in the two months after the World Trade Center terror attack. A
quarter of respondents said they drank more than usual in the five to eight
weeks after the attack.

Nearly 10 percent said they had been smoking more cigarettes and more than
3 percent said they had been puffing more marijuana, according to a report
to appear in the June edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology.