Alcohol Abuse
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Biology Corner
Want to understand why you have such a hard time staying sober? Researchers at Harvard Medical School say they have the answer based on the results of a recent brain imaging experiment – The very areas of the brain you need most to maintain abstinence are the areas most damaged by excessive alcohol use!
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Emotionaltoothpaste
Researchers say that college students who posted pictures or references of intoxication on their facebook pages were far more likely to meet the criteria for problem drinking than students who did not.
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Borguiboeuf
Researchers at the University of Missouri say they know why we’re more likely to do really dumb things when drunk – it’s not that we don’t realize that we’re screwing up, it’s just that we just lose the ability to care very much about the mistakes we know we’re making.
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Wen Nag
People who work 50 or more hours per week are as much as three times more likely to develop a problem with alcohol as those who are unemployed.
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Plasticrevolver
Too drunk to drive, a 28 year old Mississippi man left the driving through Louisiana to his 8 year old son while he passed out, with an open container, in the passenger seat.
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Jasmic
In 34 Alaskan communities, the possession of sugar and yeast is a crime and police are on the lookout for anyone with the supplies and intent to make up a batch of homebrew.
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BenWatts
Police in the UK say that chemicals and equipment found with the debris at a blast site in an industrial estate in Lincolnshire indicate an illegal vodka making factory. Bottles of black-market vodka can be bought in the area for as little as 2 pounds and are marketed mainly at the large Eastern European immigrant community.
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Tim Parkinson
Hospital emergency rooms around the country are ready for a little extra business today, as Independence Day revelry sparks an upswing in underage drinking and all the violence and accidents that go hand in hand with summertime binge drinking .
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96dpi
Although a lot of parents think that by introducing alcohol to young teens in the home adolescents can learn responsible drinking habits, a large harm reduction study out of Australia and America suggests that these well meaning parents may be doing a lot more harm than good.
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Adam Haranghy
According to study data from the Partnership at Drug Free.org, almost half of American teens see ‘no great risk’ in drinking 5 or more drinks per day.
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Hoping to avoid trouble with your teen children? Then make sure you don’t drink at all during the first trimester of pregnancy because as little as one drink a day during those first three months triples the risk of teen conduct disorder.
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Cia de Foto
In an extreme case of collateral damage from the UK’s culture of binge drinking, a 3 year old child was admitted to a West Midlands hospital sometime between 2008 and 2010 for alcohol dependency.
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Richard Riley
Dreaming of that white wedding? Well, be careful with your drinking, because not only do problem drinkers get married later in life, they’re also more likely to have relationships that run into trouble - in fact, alcoholics are twice as likely as non problem drinkers to get divorced.
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bass_nroll
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), about 6% of kids between the ages of 12 and 14 are drinking alcohol in any given month – almost none of them are paying for it, and about 15% of them have parents who knowingly provide the booze.
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Dulcelife
SIDS deaths spike by a third on New Year’s Eve, prompting researchers to speculate that increased alcohol consumption decreases childcare effectiveness and leads to the increased deaths.
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