Lecture May 9,1988
15/10

          Remarks
         BY
    C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD
      Surgeon General
           Of the
     U.S. Public Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

On Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
May 9,1988

These brief remarks are included as an example of the kinds of things I was frequently
asked to do on Capitol Hill. On this occasion Secretary Bowen had just announced a
department wide initiative against alcoholism and alcohol abuse in November of 1987.
This was a follow up on my own particular contribution to the alcohol problem namely,
drunk driving. It is brief, it is to the point, and it sets the stage for other things that were
happening in Congress in reference to drunk driving.