Alcohol Abuse
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Minimum pricing, controlled sale times, lower BACs for motorists and health warning labels on bottles are among the recommendations made by the WHO to reduce the human costs of alcohol abuse.
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A Floridian driver pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving finished off his cocktail prior to attempting a field sobriety test.
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Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA say that more than a third of people over the age of 60 are either drinking too much, or drinking at levels that when combined with the medications they take, puts them at risk.
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20 year old Laura Hall has been getting drunk and causing problems in her hometown of Bromsgrove for years. She is now the first person in England to receive a national ban on drinking in public.
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Drinking while a teen is found to increase the odds of benign breast disease in the 20’s – which is a known risk factor for later in life breast caner.
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Beer and liquor sales skyrocket in Alaska when soldiers return from overseas combat. The Army says it’s trying to help by teaching more responsible drinking.
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Heavy drinking harms the liver – as does being obese – but when obese people drink heavily, the damage to the liver increases exponentially.
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A soup kitchen in Saskatoon Canada was forced to stop offering anti bacterial hand sanitizer after they found that people were distilling the alcohol out of the gel for consumption.
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While a drink a day may be heart healthy, binge drinking, even occasionally, seems to eliminate the cardiovascular benefits of moderate drinking and increase the risk of heart disease.
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The drinking habits of one partner has caused relationship problems for 26% of Britons.
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Scientists have found a brain hormone that they say plays a central role in the development and perpetuation of alcohol dependence (Alcoholism). They say that by blocking this hormone, they ‘cured’ alcoholic mice from their excessive drinking habits.
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Canadian health researchers say that heavy drinkers given access to an online intervention tool reduced their alcohol consumption by 30% - and that this reduction proved lasting beyond 6 months.
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British scientists are working on a replacement for alcohol that could be drunk to produce a mild intoxication, but that could not get you drunk and that could be reversed instantly when needed.
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According to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, fruit flies given unlimited access to alcohol start to act very similarly to human alcoholics.
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Researchers say that drinking coffee as a way to sober up after drinking too much alcohol may not be such a good idea – in fact, by making people feel more sober than they are, it might just make things worse.
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