Posts Tagged ‘binge drinking’

Teenage Alcohol Abuse in the News

CPASA sets new campaign against underage drinking
Filed under: teenage alcohol abuse

CPASA coordinator Dawn Conerton said the purpose of the campaign is to remind parents and adults to do their part in preventing underage drinking by talking to teens about the dangers of alcohol, by not providing alcohol to minors and by supervising …
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Hosting underage drinking party result in charges
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Most schools have developed pretty stringent procedures to ensure that the kids at the party are not abusing substances but the ever popular after-prom parties are continued sources of risk. Well-meaning parents may think that hosting a teenage …
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Positive Decision Making Project: Teenage Binge Drinking

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The effects of Alcohol

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Get Fact: did the alcopops tax curb teenage drinking?
Filed under: alcohol abuse binge drinking

We argued that as a strategy to curb binge-drinking and alcohol abuse in young people, raising the excise on a pre-mixed alcohol products was naive at best and negligent at worst. The policy was suggested to the Government and championed by the tax …
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Filed under: alcohol abuse binge drinking

“I have no doubt in my mind that this will target consumption by a group of people who are engaging in drinking practices that are undesirable for them, and for the country.” — Wayne Swan on the “alcopops” tax in 2008. “We know young people … Nicola …
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Symptoms Of Drinking in the News

'Cholera' hit jaibirds, not food poisoning
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Transmission is primarily through drinking water or through food contaminated by the feces of an infected person, including one with no apparent symptoms. Symptoms include projectile (sudden, forceful) vomiting, diarrhoea that is watery and rice …
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Binge drinking may cause insomnia in older adults
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Sarah Canham, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in drug dependence epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and colleagues studied the association between binge drinking and insomnia symptoms in 4,790 community-dwelling adults …
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Binge Drinking And Alcoholism in the News

Man slits mother-in-law's throat in drunken fury
Filed under: binge drinking and alcoholism

CHENNAI: A 30-year-old man is on the run after killing his mother-in-law who questioned him for his alcoholism. Police said Ayyappan had fled Mamandur, … Ayyappan, who had been on a drinking binge, lost his cool. He pushed his pregnant wife into …
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Researchers Propose New Guidelines For Self-Regulating Alcohol Ads
Filed under: binge drinking and alcoholism

"For example, most people would be surprised to learn that each year, several of the beer ads broadcast to millions of young persons on Superbowl Sunday contain serious code violations that may contribute to binge drinking by American youth." Babor and …
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ImmuDyne to Launch Proprietary Dietary Supplement in the US Alcohol …
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National Institute On Alcohol Abuse in the News

The claim that the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is 'very low'
Filed under: national institute on alcohol abuse

… rate of pregnancy. The most widely cited study of this question (embedded below) was published in 1996 by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which determined a national rape-related pregnancy rate of 5.0 percent per rape among …
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Underage Drinking Laws on Campus
Filed under: national institute on alcohol abuse

It is no secret that alcohol use is prevalent on college campuses. According to the National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, eighty percent of college kids drink alcohol, and over fifty percent of them have partaken in binge drinking in the …
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Woman, 36, bears child of 11-year-old boy
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Alcohol Abuse Vs Dependence in the News

Certain environmental factors impact alcohol problems more for European than …
Filed under: alcohol abuse vs dependence

A new study looks at the influences of genetics versus the environment on AFD and problem drinking among AA and EA women, finding that environmental factors shared by family members, such as parenting and school influences, play a larger role in the …
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Binge Drinking Hurts Sleep For Older Adults, Study Finds
Filed under: alcohol abuse vs dependence

The study, presented at the annual SLEEP 2013 conference, shows that frequent binge drinking — defined as having four or more drinks in one occasion, for two or more days a week — is linked with insomnia symptoms in adults age 55 and older …
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Colorado Docs on Medical Marijuana: Taking the High Road
Filed under: alcohol abuse vs dependence