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Vulnerability to alcohol and drug abuse may begin in the womb – Examiner.com
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Vulnerability to alcohol and drug abuse may begin in the womb Examiner.com Vulnerability to alcohol and drug abuse may begin in the womb and be linked to how much fat and sugar a mother eats during pregnancy according to Dr. Nicole Avena, a research neuroscientist with the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute, and … A Mother's Taste For Fat And Sugar During Pregnancy May Predispose Children …Medical Daily all 6 news articles »

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BC’s youth binge drinking a pathway to chronic health problems – The Province
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Question by Caitlin Buelt: If a person’s liver was damaged, would they get sick from just a few alcoholic drinks?
The person in question is a guy who started drinking at 20 years old, escalated while he was 21, and while 22 and 23, for about 2 years, he severely abused alcohol in very heavy binges. He did take a complete 90-day break when he was 22 and a half. By the time he started drinking very heavily (22 and 23), he often would go 3 weeks or so without drinking. He was *not* a daily drinker, but an episodic binge drinker. However, when he binged, he did so very hard. Sometimes 2 or 3 days in a row. Then, when he turned 24 he drank very heavily, daily, for about 3 weeks. After that he got cleaned up, started eating good, gained 30lbs and as off to a good start. However, in between then and now, a course of about 2 years (until about a year ago) he had heavy, severe binges about every few weeks or once a month, followed by eating very healthy and trying to redeem his health. A year or a little more ago he quit drinking soda, started eating yogurt, granola and berries for breakfast, cut back on carbs majorly, started eating more fruits and veggies, and at the end of last year quit smoking. He takes a multivitamin everyday and has the past few years. Now he drinks a fe days a week in small, normal amounts. He doesn’t even really get drunk. He’ll drink 3 drinks on average, sometimes just 1 or 2, sometimes up to 5 in an evening. He usually drinks while eating or eats before he drinks. He doesn’t drink 5 drinks very often, but when he does it usually takes him 5 or 6 hours to drink a bottle of wine (which is 5 drinks exactly). His drinking now is about 1 drink per hour when he drinks. He used to drink an entire half pint or more of hard liquor in an hour! I don’t know how he did it, but he drinks normal now and says he has no desire to get drunk. I’m just surprised he doesn’t get sick or hangovers because I would have thought his liver is damaged. He seems healthy though and eats well, excercises some, etc. He’s not fat or anything, not skinny. Actually he’s in good shape. What do you think??? Could his liver be damaged? But if it was, wouldn’t he get sick off even just 2 or 3 drinks???
Mum Mum- we had thought he was surely an alcoholic because he couldn’t control his drinking and supposedly alcohol isn’t curable. However, he hasn’t had problems for a year now and the few days per week he does drink, he typically has 2-3 drinks. I asked him how he can control it now when he couldn’t before and he says he doesn’t know why he couldn’t control it before, but says that he doesn’t even have to try to “control it now”. Anyway, so I’m thinking if it’s true being an alcoholic isn’t curable, then he must not be a true alcoholic. Supposedly an alcoholic can never learn to control their intake or go back to drinking like a normal person, but this guy has! It’s perplexing and I am confused. I just don’t want to see him go back to how he was or hurt his health.
nickipettis- well, we got him to the dentist. Next up is the doctor for a full exam and check up. He’s going to tell the doctor he’s concerned about his health and try to explain how hard and he had binge drinked. Some people have a hard time believing he drank as much as he did or they think it’s not as bad as he thinks it is – but he drank very heavily.

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British female MP threatened on Twitter
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… to strip at airport · Teenager forced to strip at airport. TEENAGER left in tears after airline staff ordered her to take off her 'too revealing' denim shorts in front of hundreds of passengers before agreeing to check her in. … MP Claire Perry …
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Moms’ high-fat, sugary diets up offspring’s risk of drug, alcohol abuse – People’s Daily Online
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Moms' high-fat, sugary diets up offspring's risk of drug, alcohol abuse People’s Daily Online In animal experiments, the offspring of rats that ate high-fat or high-sugar diets while pregnant weighed more as adults and drank more alcohol, and those on high-sugar diets also had stronger responses to commonly abused drugs such as amphetamine, … Vulnerability to alcohol and drug abuse may begin in the wombExaminer.com A Mother's Taste For Fat And Sugar During Pregnancy May Predispose Children …Medical Daily all 4 news articles »

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Officials turn to education to reduce binge drinking problem – Marshfield News-Herald
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Why (and how) you should talk to college-bound kids about alcohol
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Problem drinking is affecting our county's college-age youth. National figures show that 31 percent of college students meet criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse. Locally, 22 percent of 12th-graders report regular binge drinking (4 to 5 drinks at least once per week), which only increases durin…
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Health Impacts of Alcohol – Should The Public Know?
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The way to reduce the harm is to reduce heavy drinking. Fortunately we know what is effective in reducing heavy drinking in populations and that is having controls on alcohol price and availability, and getting rid of alcohol marketing. Professor Shaw …
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Pre-pregnancy alcohol consumption affects alcohol use among pregnant women …
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“Most women who drank alcohol prior to pregnancy, especially those who drank weekly or reported binge drinking behaviour, continued to drink during their pregnancy indicating that pre-pregnancy alcohol consumption was a significant risk factor for …
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"Drinking five bottles of wine a DAY left me on life support." Alcoholic warns …
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