Alcohol Abuse In Elderly in the News

Connnecticut School Shootings
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Adam Lanza entered a grade school in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday morning, December 14, with multiple weapons where he killed 20 young students, and six adults and then himself just as first responders were about to arrive. Lanza was described as …
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Prescription Opioid Abuse in the Elderly an Urgent Concern
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Furthermore, the elderly currently use one third of all medications prescribed, and data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) indicate that 2.8 million seniors abused prescription drugs in the last year. SAMHSA estimates …
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Steroid use found to damage brain's spatial functioning
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Their study, appearing in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, used a variety of tests to determine whether steroid users developed cognitive defects due to their admitted history of abuse. The subjects in the study were aged between 29 and 55 and …
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