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Arrack ban has not helped curb alcoholism: Siddaramaiah
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‘It has affected the livelihoods of those in the arrack business’
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It had been 26 years since I'd seen South Africa. How it changed — and how it …
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The country is wracked by violent crime, child abuse, alcoholism. Despite some luxury homes, most Sowetans still live in simple dwellings, many with makeshift rooms for rent in their back … The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime says South Africa's …
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Asheville develops taste for premium liquor
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Reporting periods do not match up precisely, but it appears Asheville ABC sales have grown at more than double the rate of liquor sales nationally. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States said national sales rose 4 percent in calendar year …
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A Look Back at 2013 in Quotes
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir By Frances Mayes This is a brand new novel! So brand new that it isn’t out yet. LOL. It will be released in April of 2014, by Crown Publishers. This is a memoir of Frances Mayes. She is an author who grew up in the south. Frances has written several books about Tusc …
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Cannabis v. Alcohol: Violence
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Paul Armentano of NORML writes at AlterNet: The risk of intimate partner violence increases the more one drinks. That’s the take-away message from a just published study [3] in the January edition of the scientific journal Addictive Behaviors. Researchers at the University of Tennessee and Florida S …
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Get out and do something
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The best New Year's resolution: make someone less lonely
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New Year is a bumper time for the self-help book industry. And rather like chocolates, once you've consumed one, you find yourself tempted by an entire row and half a second row before you pause for rational thought. Our relentless search for meaning …
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Severe Mental Illness Tied to Substance Use: Which Comes First?
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With the help of a large data base called the Genomic Psychiatry Cohort, researchers have begun to shed light on the connection between alcohol and drug abuse, dependence, and mental illness. Dr. Sarah … However, in an exclusive interview with …
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Tyler-area Alcohol Anonymous patrons, supporters celebrate 67 years
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American Literature And The 'Mythos Of The Boozing Writer'
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In her new book, The Trip To Echo Spring , Olivia Laing investigates the role of drinking in the lives of six great American writers: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, John Berryman, Tennessee Williams and Raymond Carver.
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Eight months' jail for hitting child on plane
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A former aerospace executive who while on a flight slapped a crying toddler and called the little boy, who is black, a racial slur was sentenced yesterday to eight months in prison for an incident his attorney blamed on his alcoholism. Joe Rickey …
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Insurance sector: Where to invest in 2014
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Other risk exposures include Water – borne diseases; Absence of Medical facilities to diagnose and to treat; Ignorance – Cultural and Religious beliefs; Alcoholism; Hazardous Jobs – Snake bite, falling from tree top and social expenses – Wedding …
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Laurie Halse Anderson on 'Speak,' Censorship, and 'The Impossible Knife of …
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