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How Safe Is Thanksgiving?
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Dr. Glatter: The main issue we typically see at this time of year is holiday heart syndrome, which is caused by the combination of alcohol and overeating — often, binge drinking and binge eating — in people with otherwise normal hearts. This leads to …
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7 Easy Ways To Add Years To Your Life
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People with strong social ties are generally less vulnerable to mental health issues like depression and tend to live longer. … People who drink any light or moderate quantity of beer or other alcohol increase their life expectancy by 2.5 years and …
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Survivor of addictions reflects on importance of music in his life
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Teen binge drinking — the real American pastime?
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Teen binge drinking. As American as baseball and apple pie, right? In fact, many adults just assume that it's just one of the many rites of passage towards adulthood like losing your virginity or learning how to drive. Some people fault the changing …
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Study highlights parental alcohol danger
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Alcohol abuse among parents is a serious health hazard that has a devastating impact on families, according to a new study. The Northern Territory study shows 86 per cent of children ordered into care by a court had been exposed to harmful alcohol use …
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Question by Pek-Mom: What does it mean to dream you have cancer and are dying?
I had a dream last night that I had throat cancer and was dying. There was a new, radical procedure that they could try to save me, but no one would talk to me about it. My parents and the doctors were whispering about it so that I would not here their discussion as the procedure was very risky. Now I am a 30 yr. old woman, so my parents would not be the decision-makers in this case. The entire time I was going through this experience, “dream”, I kept saying, “I have to do this for my son”, and “you must save me so I can see him grow up”. I kept telling my parents and my husband to make sure my son knows that he was EVERYTHING to me “in case”. However, I was determined to fight and survive.

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Drinking and (Critical) Thinking
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Binge drinking is defined as five drinks in a sitting for males and four for females. About 80 percent of college students drink and about half of those students binge drink, according to figures from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and …
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At home with the boiling frog
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But the most amusing view from the family Ford this week was not how a crack-smoking, impaired-driving, drug-trafficking binge drinker can reassure the whole wired world that he doesn't have a substance abuse problem. The best part is that the only …
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FEMA checks received by homeless people
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Medical marijuana's evolving health benefits
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Yet researchers have been able to do relatively little to test its most promising ingredients for biological activity, safety and side effects. The main reason is marijuana's classification by Congress in 1970 as an illegal Schedule I drug, defined as …
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Binge drinking during pregnancy linked to negative emotions
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Mothers who drink alcohol while pregnant potentially risk their unborn child's health. Alcohol consumption has been linked with increased risk of premature birth, low birthweight, fetal alcohol syndrome and even fetal death. Leading health experts …
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Pre-Thanksgiving Drinking Celebration Is A Turkey, Says Loyola ED Chair
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How binge drinking impairs bone healing
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PHYSICIANS have long observed that binge drinking can significantly impair the healing process following a bone fracture. Now a study by Loyola University Medical Center, United States, researchers is providing insights into how alcohol slows healing …
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Pregnancy and alcohol still an issue
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Currently, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that 40,000 babies are born each year with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. It's not known whether the rates of fetal alcohol syndrome have changed in the last …
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