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Lack Of Fear, Need For Reward Drive Alcohol Abuse From Stress Among …
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Scientists have identified the two biggest things that seem to influence risk for stress-related alcohol abuse among college students: Having a lack of fear of negative consequences, and a strong need for reward. "Imagine the push and pull of opposing …
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The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding 0 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation’s most impoverished counties. One in four children born on the reservation suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and the average life expectancy is estimated between 45 and 52 years — the shortest in North America except for Haiti, according to the lawsuit. Tribal leaders and activists blame the Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on the Pine Ridge reservation, where all alcohol is banned. They say most of the stores’ customers come from the reservation, which spans southwest South Dakota and dips into Nebraska. They sell over 5000 cans of beer each day. “You cannot sell 4.9 million 12-ounce cans of beer and wash your hands like Pontius Pilate, and say we’ve got nothing to do with it being smuggled,” said Tom White, the tribe’s Omaha-based attorney. Read more: www.foxnews.com

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