Alcohol Abuse: Physician Receives $3M Grant From NIAAA to Validate Teen Alcohol-Screening Initiative

Physician receives M grant from NIAAA to validate teen alcohol-screening initiative
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Hasbro Children's Hospital emergency medicine physician James Linakis, M.D., Ph.D, was recently awarded a five-year, $ 3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to validate a more efficient test to screen teenagers for future alcohol abuse and other risk behaviors.
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Spectre of workplace alcohol tests hang over employees
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More than 14m working days are apparently lost to hangovers, absenteeism or alcohol related illnesses each year, but instant tests should perhaps be used cautiously Routine alcohol testing at work could be on the way with the introduction of a fingerprint device that gives results in eight seconds. The AlcoSense device is described as "a 100% non-invasive, touch based measurement" which uses …
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