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View Post: Should You Cut Down Drinking Alcohol or Quit?
HALT Recovery ...
19 hours ago by nita   ...
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View Post: Alcohol, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Drinks ...
26 Nov 2009
Alcoholism 101 · About Drug Abuse · Effects of Alcohol · Do I Have A Problem? ... Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously ... Heavy drinking is considered an "at risk" level of alcohol consumption, ...
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View Post: Alcohol takes its toll on Russians' health
29 Nov 2009 by admin  
London, England (CNN) — In Russia, where the government has designated alcoholism a “national disaster,” men have an average life expectancy of just 60 years — one of the lowest in Europe. ... Life expectancy for men has stagnated for quite some time, and a major culprit has been high levels of alcohol consumption. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, alcohol and tobacco use have risen, as Russians have struggled to adapt to economic change, health experts say. ...
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View Post: Dr. Andrew Tatarsky's Harm Reduction Blog: United States Changes ...
2 hours ago by Andrew Tatarsky  
Now the NIDA's sister organization - the NIAAA or National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - agrees with me. According to Dr. Mark Willenbring, director of treatment and recovery research at NIAAA, "We're on the cusp of some ... The remarkable portrait NESARC produces is about how commonplace alcohol use disorders are, how frequently they are overcome by people on their own - including even those scored alcohol dependent - and how often people improve their ...
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View Post: Over The Top Drinking & Mental Fitness
2 hours ago
The psychological chaos that's quietened by alcohol can reappear with a multiplied savagery as the intoxication wears off and the self-medicator is then faced with a disintegrating psychological state and an exposure to alcoholism as he ... LSD and ecstasy have also featured heavily through science publications and the media but the drug with the strongest connection with mental sickness isn't necessarily the most plain : unrestrained alcohol consumption was attached to ...
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View Post: Student alcohol abuse is a familiar demon
Daily Trojan
18 Nov 2009 by Ryan Furlong   ...
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View Post: UNDERNEWS: RESEARCH CHALLENGES ASSUMPTION THAT ALCOHOLICS ARE ...
17 Nov 2009 by TPR  
Perhaps the most remarkable finding of the epidemiologic study was how many Americans experienced an alcohol-use disorder (either abuse or the more severe dependence) at some point -- and how many recovered on their own. About 30% of Americans had experienced a disorder, the research showed, but about 70% of those quit drinking or cut back to safe consumption patterns without treatment after four years or less. Only 1% of those surveyed fit the stereotypical image of ...
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View Post: SABMiller - News & media - News
26 Nov 2009
His first publication on inverse relationship between alcohol drinking and coronary disease in 1974 was cited in 1995 by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as one of the 16 obliged reference articles for the world ... For Klatsky "The benefits of moderate alcohol consumption are mainly evident in women above 50 and men above 40; furthermore, a better effect is achieved if alcohol beverages are consumed with meals, as there is better alcohol ...
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View Post: Pharmacotherapy: Treating Addiction with Medicine
The Drug ...
25 Nov 2009 by Partnership Editorial Staff   ...
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View Post: Fight Hangovers: US: You can cut back on alcohol
14 Nov 2009 by Smart Partyer  
"For a long time there was an emphasis on alcoholism as if it were one thing," says Carol Prescott, a psychology professor at USC who has studied alcohol-use disorders. "I think that has been abandoned. People with alcohol-related problems don't all look the same at all. ... Labels: alcohol abuse and misuse, alcohol addiction, alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, alcohol metabolism, alcohol problems, alcohol research, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), drinking habits, NIAAA ...
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