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Boston tops The Daily Beast's 2011 list of the 25 tipsiest towns in America, moving up from the eighth position last year. The Beast credits its click-ready rankings to a mixture of market research surveys and CDC statistics. I don't know about the scientific accuracy, but from my perspective in its trenches, ranking Boston the booziest rings true.
You see, I spent 2011 seeing most of the traumatic brain injury cases at two of New England's busiest rehabilitation hospitals. During the first half of the year, I completed my time in training on the south shore of Boston, and then I moved across town to take charge of my own, similar program at another hospital situated on the north shore. Combined, the two hospitals treat most of the serious head injury cases requiring acute level rehabilitation in the Boston region.
Boston's Brain Drain: The Cost of Being America's Drunkest City
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And then there is the case of the woman who suffered from vicious alcoholism, as reflected in her record of previous DUI's, her estranged family's testimony, and now a brain injury after a fall while intoxicated at home. She was a success story within walls of the rehabilitation hospital, coming back from her confusion and nixing her post-traumatic vertigo with vestibular therapy. She grew in her commitment and self insight, aided by addiction counseling all along the way, but we thought she still needed more. Given the severity of what happened this time, there couldn't be a next time.
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