Alcohol Abuse
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Researchers at The University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research say that alcohol is way too cheap in British Columbia. They recommend tripling the minimum cost and recommend giving free alcohol to homeless alcoholics, so that after a price hike, they won’t have to resort to drinking mouthwash or anti freeze or other non beverage types of alcohol.
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D.J. Milky
Researchers in Ireland say that people who regularly drink more than 4 or 5 drinks in a sitting have nearly twice the risk of heart disease.
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Marc DOnoher
When considering the total costs of drug use by substance, and when factoring both personal costs and costs to society at large, researchers in the UK say alcohol is far and away the most harmful drug out there today.
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St Stev
The city of London is thinking of copying South Dakota’s mandatory sobriety program for offenders involved in alcohol related crimes. If they do, those in the program will have to come to a testing facility twice a day to blow into a breathalyzer and prove their sobriety – or end up in jail.
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Cyron
N.Z. researchers have found that a drink of easily found bargain priced wine is, on average, less than the price of a 250ml bottle of water.
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Eightfivezero
Students under the age of 21 who go overseas increase their drinking even more dramatically.
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Luciano Joaquim
The CDC says that despite considerable public education campaigns, binge drinking hasn’t declined in more than 15 years, and according to alcohol sales information, it may actually be on the rise.
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Mysiana
Women who drink 5 or more regular strength beers per week more than double their risks of developing psoriasis.
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Simon Pais
22% of Australians will develop a drinking problem at least once in a lifetime and young adults today are drinking a lot more than their earlier cohorts did.
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DerikB
Moms over 30 who binge drink while pregnant are more likely than younger women who also binge drink to give birth to a child with alcohol exposure caused permanent brain damage.
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Roadsidepictures
Texas University researchers who studied the alcohol consumption habits of different groups say that whites are drinking more alcohol than they did in 1992 and that more Hispanics and blacks are drinking today than they did in 1992.
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Unfurled
BBC researchers questioned over a thousand children and young teens in the UK to find out how watching adults drink (and get drunk) made them feel
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Futorwoman
Male children who are exposed to alcohol in the womb by their imbibing pregnant moms are likely to have lower sperm counts 20 years later and may have greater difficulty fathering children.
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MSVG
Emergency room visits due to underage drinking go up by 11% over the Memorial Day weekend.
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St Stev
English researchers say that people living in poorer areas are significantly more likely to die from alcohol related causes than people from more affluent parts of the country.
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