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Alcohol bosses reject summit talks – The Age
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Alcohol bosses reject summit talks The Age The Australian Medical Association's call for a summit to develop solutions to curb alcohol abuse drew a cautious response from the Abbott government on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the Assistant Minister for Health, Fiona Nash, who has responsibility … Drinks industry representatives reject AMA's calls for alcohol summitSydney Morning Herald all 4 news articles »

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Psychedelics Help Keep People From Returning To Prison: Study
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“Offenders may be especially likely to benefit from hallucinogen treatment because involvement in the criminal justice system often results from drug-seeking behavior and impulse conduct exacerbated by compulsive substance use. … having a …
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Heart stutter disorder now affects more than one million
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High blood pressure, heart valve disease and binge drinking are among the causes, which can leave sufferers experiencing palpitations, and feeling faint and breathless. However, some people with the condition have no symptoms at all. If left untreated …
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A tv ad in Dutch to promote awareness amoung parents about young age drinking.

 

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Binge drinking culture of Kiwi kids
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HEAVY TOLL: New Zealand’s teens’ obsession with alcohol makes for appalling statistics that should ignite a wake-up call
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Heavy drinking in middle-aged men may speed up memory loss: study
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NEW YORK — Middle-aged men risk a faster mental decline as they age if they've been drinking heavily for years, new research suggests. The study of about 5,000 British civil servants found that over a decade, the added decline was the equivalent of …
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Risky to confuse fact, fiction
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According to the Rethinking Drinking website of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, for a healthy male adult, drinking more than four drinks per day or 14 in a week (remember, Bond averaged 92 a week) is considered "at risk" or …
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Q&A: Use and Abuse of Alcohol in Sri Lanka
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People drink alcohol for many different reasons, and its consumption and often abuse crosses socio-economic boundaries. In some areas, alcohol consumption can mark specific delineations of society. The subject becomes very interesting in Sri Lanka, where the apparent high level of illegal alcohol consumption relates to distinctions in religion, family structure, and economic status. Michele Ruth …
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Grant targets young patients over drug, alcohol use
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More than $ 2 million is coming into the state so doctors can ask their teenage and young adult patients a simple question ? do you use drugs or alcohol?
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Virtual Training Tool Targets Underage Drinking at Colleges
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Ex-DEA Agent Finds Unlikely New Role In Marijuana Investment Firm
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In Oregon, another former Portland-based DEA agent, Paul Schmidt, who retired from the agency in 2010, recently set up shop as a consultant to medical cannabis businesses after working as a state inspector of medical pot dispensaries in Colorado. Last …
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says city “booming” despite record unemployment
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Ford hopes that he will be able to use the intervening eight months to push to the background last year's sordid spectacle of drug and alcohol abuse, criminal associations, habitual lying and outright buffoonery that saw him stripped of much of his …
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