Alcohol Abuse
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The FDA has served spiked energy drinks makers notice – prove within 30 days that adding caffeine to alcoholic drinks isn’t harmful – or we’ll shut you down.
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HIV positive patients that drink alcohol are less likely to take their medications as directed, and as alcohol consumption goes up, medication regimen adherence goes down.
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With 21 students now infected, students at Rensselaer Polytechnic in New York State have been asked to stop playing the drinking game ‘beer pong’, which officials suspect may have spread the virus.
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Provincial health advisor, Dr. Evan Adams, calls for intervention from within the First Nations community.
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People who came of age in states with a drinking age of 18 are far more likely to have current day problems with alcohol and drug addiction than people who grew up in states that enforced a legal minimum drinking age of 21.
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Alcohol reduces the activity of a protein necessary for launching defensive immune system cytokines, leaving bingers at an increased risk of infection for up to 24 hours after heavy drinking.
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College students who met the criteria for harmful drinking behaviors drank 17% less one month after participating in an easy web based alcohol intervention.
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American colleges that dealt with problem drinking in 1993 had equally problematic drinking in 2005.
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Duke University researchers say that baby boomers and those 65+ are binge drinking in high numbers.
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According to the latest findings by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) 12% of binge drinkers admit to driving after their last binge drinking session. They say that more than half of these people got drunk at a bar or a restaurant and that by enforcing existing laws that limit alcohol service amounts, the numbers of drunk drivers on the roads could fall substantially.
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Chronic heavy drinking can cause brain damage in regions of the brain needed for emotional processing, leaving alcoholics in recovery less able to interpret the emotions displayed in facial expressions.
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Canadian researchers prove that heavy drinking increases your risk of liver and esophageal cancer by 700% and substantially increases your risks of stomach, colon, prostate and lung cancer.
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College students who drink heavily often wrongly believe that their peers drink equivalently, but when heavy drinking college students receive accurate information about the quantity consumed by peers; they reduce their own drinking.
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Alcohol’s influence on early death has grown since the year 2000, attributable largely to an increase in drinking by women, and overall increases in developing countries such as India and China.
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Despite research over the past number of years that has produced a greater understanding of the kinds of interventions that reduce excessive drinking on college campuses, the fatality and binge drinking rates continue to rise.
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