Alcohol Addiction
Communicating with the Alcoholic/Addict – Concepts for Neutral Dialogue
Communication is an art all to itself. Whether it comes trippingly off the tongue, through expressive eyes, facial inflections, foot taping, moans, groans or whatever body language we are transmitting, it’s all some type of communication.
In an instant we hear or see what that person is saying to us and react accordingly. Most of the [...] ...
Massachusetts Sees Rapid Rise in Alcohol Poisoning Deaths
Alcohol poisoning grabs much attention this time of year as holiday parties and festivities often lead to alcohol consumption. For the individual who may not be able to impose limits, the results can be devastating. A recent Boston Herald report shows that alcohol poisoning deaths in Massachusetts have soared over the last decade. State health [...] ...
Acts of Service Can Help in Treating Addiction
Alcoholism is a disease that can cripple an individual, depleting them of a healthy lifestyle and a happy home. While many would prefer to overcome their addiction to drink, the hold that alcohol can have on a person can be defeating. Now, however, a new study suggests that community service may provide opportunities for healing. [...] ...
6 Signs Your Alcoholic Loved One May Be Relapsing
For the budding alcoholic/addict in recovery, relapse is all too often a nanosecond away. Even for the well-seasoned soul who has practiced a clean and sober lifestyle for many years, relapse may be in a deep, dormant sleep but can be aroused with a touch of a feather.
More than a year ago, I wrote a [...] ...
Recovery Is a Process of Awakening
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps …” (B.B. page 60). This is the promise confirmed in Step Twelve: having submitted to, taken the action required by, and been brought through the prior 11 steps, a spiritual awakening is guaranteed.
The Big Book is not self-explanatory — at least that is my [...] ...
Narcissism in a Bottle: The Self Centerdness of Addiction
Over the years I have listened to a sort of running monologue from clients who grew up with an addicted parent. It goes something like this: “I felt like it was all about them, like what was going on inside of me was sort of invisible, like what they wanted or needed always came first.” [...] ...
Caffeine can't curb affects of alcohol
While caffeine alone may spur alertness, adding caffeine to alcohol, like the popular Red Bull with vodka, does not enhance reaction time or performance on a driving test, according to a new study led by researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
"There appears to be ...
Choosing not to drink, just because
Alcohol is hard to cut back on or quit, especially if your friends see it as a prerequisite to hanging out. But there are strategies that can help you get the ball rolling.
When Betsy Franz chose to stop drinking, friends offered condolences. Some people bought her alcoholic drinks anyway and bugged her so much about her decision that she considered telling people she was a recovering ...
AA Meetings Increase Spirituality, Decrease Alcohol Use
Just how important is spirituality in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings? New research indicates that spirituality increases over time as individuals attend meetings, but that it is not the only factor that helps people in AA recover.
AA meetings help agnostics and atheists too
Since its genesis in 1935, AA has stated that it facilitates recovery from alcohol addiction through “spiritual” ...
Americans Admit to Driving After Using Drugs and Alcohol
There are many dangerous behaviors associated with the use of drugs and alcohol. The rate of risky sexual behaviors goes up with the use of drugs and alcohol, as well as the occurrence of related injuries. One dangerous behavior that affects not only the user but countless others is the decision to drive while using ...
Winter officially begins today (Tuesday) and with less sunlight, the days are shorter and temperatures are much colder. These factors can have an adve
New Year's Eve parties and alcohol can be a deadly combination, officials with Southwest Florida Addiction Services (SWFAS) warned today.
“Alcohol consumption typically peaks during the holiday season. We're cautioning everyone to exercise good judgment and to be responsible if they choose to drink. There are many practical options available to partygoers,” said Kevin B. Lewis, ...
Addiction can make holidays hard to endure
Michael Toomey scarcely needed to open his eyes in the morning to know the glass of tequila awaited at his bedside.
He drank daily for 30 years — from the time he woke up to the time he went to bed — but Toomey could hide his disease from most. He successfully worked middle management jobs and was never without transportation or a place to live.
But every year, the holiday season came ...
Alcohol Cravings Can Be Stopped, or Managed, Through a Variety of Methods
Alcohol cravings are a part of life for many recovering alcoholics, occurring in situations the alcoholic may expect and plan for, also occurring without warning. Addiction experts believe the management of alcohol cravings is very closely related to a person’s recovery success and can be a predictor of relapse. Learning how to help recovering alcoholics [...] ...
Ease of Buying Alcohol and Rates of Binge Drinking
Convenience is a powerful recommendation for what we choose. A fast food restaurant down the street may make it easier to shrug off plans to cook. A gas station right around the corner allows a driver to let the needle ease past the empty mark. People are often convinced to make decisions because an easy [...] ...
Alcohol and TV Product Placement
Television often plays a role in cultural preference. Names given to babies on popular television shows often skyrocket in social security records. Clothing and hairstyles appearing on television make their way to the masses. Many people might believe that they are not affected by the influence of television in their choices, but a study by [...] ...
Researchers study treatments for female alcoholics
Once a week, groups of women, ranging from top business executives to those receiving welfare, visit the Center of Alcohol Studies on Busch campus to receive treatment for alcohol use disorder in one of Elizabeth Epstein's newest studies.
A licensed psychologist and research professor at the University, Epstein is searching for a more cost-efficient and effective treatment for female ...
Alcohol More Damaging than Crack Study Says
According to a study made by the medical journal, The Lancet, alcohol poses greater harm to drinkers than heroin or crack.
While the study also suggest that tobacco and cocaine are evenly harmful and LSD and cocaine are least damaging.
Furthermore, the research ranks 20 different drugs under 16 measures of harm it will cause to users and to the greater society.
The former UK chief drugs ...
A new take on spirituality
The freedom to name and understand the Divine as we see fit stands as one of the fundamental tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and of recovery from chemical dependency in general. Today there appears to be a new, growing audience supporting this freedom of choice. Globally, people are becoming freed up to explore spirituality for themselves and to follow where the winds blow. This in turn ...
Four Loko: Is New Party Brew "Liquid Cocaine?"
Down a single Four Loko - one of several popular energy-plus-alcohol beverages - and you're getting a ton of caffeine plus the equivalent of almost three beers.
Some Four Loko fans say they like the "caffeinated malt beverage" because it gives them a paradoxical alert-but-relaxed feeling. But experts say it can be risky to combine alcohol and caffeine, whether you're mixing Red Bull ...
Research Targets New Drugs to Treat Addictions
South Dakota State University researchers have demonstrated for the first time that a plant-derived compound used to treat nicotine addiction also has significant effects against alcohol addiction.
SDSU scientists are now investigating whether the compound may offer lasting treatment against alcohol relapse, craving, and perhaps alcohol-nicotine co-addiction as well.
“Alcohol and tobacco ...
Effects linger for children of women who drink during pregnancy
When Ellen Corona adopted her now 16-year-old son Scott, he was a perfectly healthy baby. But in the third grade, he started to have problems.
He was treated for ADHD and bipolar disorder. Four years later while seeing a specialist in Tourette Syndrome, he was finally diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. But the diagnosis didn't provide answers.
"There's a lot of gray ...
Topiramate Shows Positive Outcomes for Alcoholics
While millions of people have a problem with alcohol addiction, very few have a reliable prescription medication that may serve as the boost they need to finally break the cycle. Topiramate is a relatively new medication that has shown positive results toward cravings and reducing drinking behaviors without widespread side effects. Currently, alcoholics on the [...] ...
Cravings Can Resurface Even After Years in Recovery from Addiction
Addiction is now compared by many professionals to diseases like diabetes or high blood pressure – conditions that mandate a medical regimen and changes in the way a person manages their recreational time and their overall health. Like other diseases, addiction can go into remission for a time and then flare up again. It may ...
Alcohol Dependence Linked to Obesity, Poor Brain Health
Alcohol abuse and addiction can increase risk of obesity due to a rise in body mass index (BMI), according to previous research. Now, a new study has found that excessive alcohol use not only heightens BMI, but this increase is also linked to lower levels of brain function as a result of this joint action. ...
Drug helps with alcohol addiction
A drug called acamprosate can help alcoholics stop drinking, research has shown. But treatment isn't successful for everyone, with only one extra person managing to give up alcohol for every nine people treated.
What do we know already?
In the UK, more than a million people are dependent on alcohol. Signs of dependence include cravings, needing larger amounts to notice an effect, a ...
Jason Levine promoted to Executive Director of Promises Treatment Centers
Los Angeles, CA — Promises Treatment Centers is pleased to announce the promotion of Jason Levine, PhD, to Executive Director of Promises’ West Los Angeles addiction treatment program. Promises Treatment Centers in West Los Angeles offers a unique 90-day treatment program that includes a 30-day residential treatment phase followed by 15 days of day-patient and 45 days of intensive ...
Alcoholism damages are extensive
While a majority of Americans are able to have an occasional alcoholic beverage without repercussion or harm, approximately 10 percent of the population is unable to do so. Early researchers on alcoholism, now referred to as alcohol dependence, described it as an "allergy of mind, body, and spirit" that alters personality and diminishes an individual's ability to function in family, ...
Celebrate Recovery invites addicts to meet for fellowship lessons
A Lufkin church invites anyone with an addiction to attend an enhanced 12-step program, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
First Christian Church, located at 1300 S. First St., began the Celebrate Recovery program three years ago. A small group of recovering addicts meet on Fridays for weekly fellowship and lessons. Anyone suffering from alcoholism, anger, drug addiction and sex or ...
Happy Hour Comedy Tour: It's comedy with a message
A comedy act with a serious message provided a new and innovative way to raise awareness and dangers of alcohol abuse to Airmen at Sheppard AFB, Texas, during the Happy Hour Comedy Tour held at the base theater Aug. 5.
To reinforce the mission behind the tour, a non-alcoholic happy hour was held at the community center after the program.
Bernie McGrenahan, a stand-up comedian, has been ...
Treatment Needed for Substance Abuse by Women Employed Full-Time
Recently, the economy has taken a downward turn, leaving many men unemployed and many women as the sole breadwinner for their families. Many families are heavily reliant on the income that women bring home because 7 out of 10 jobs that have been lost have been lost by men. Women make up nearly half of [...] ...
Increasing Alcohol Taxes Could Save Lives, Florida Study Shows
Several studies have shown that alcohol taxes affect drinking behaviors, but few studies have looked at the effects of taxes on alcohol-related death. Researchers from the University of Florida analyzed the effects of multiple changes in alcohol tax rates in Florida from 1969 to 2004 on disease-related mortality, and found that raising alcohol taxes would ...
They've gotta have it: UGA SCIENTIST NEARS ANSWER TO ADDICTION PUZZLE
Why some people are willing to risk everything to satisfy cravings for alcohol or drugs while others aren't is a bit of a mystery. However, a new study led by a University of Georgia psychologist may eventually help solve the addiction riddle that wrecks millions of lives and costs many millions of dollars in public funding each year.
“We conducted a study to examine whether, and ...
Genetics Can Play a Role in Response to Drinking Cues
There are a number of things that genetics can be used to determine, including eye color, hair color, health and even your sensitivity to the drinking habits of others. According to a recent Science Daily release, genetics can play a role in determining the extent to which an individual is influenced by social drinking cues. [...] ...
ON THE JOB: Alcoholics can hurt workplace as well as families
Kate Webster yawns while talking on the phone midmorning.
"Excuse me," she says. "I was doing an intervention until 3 a.m."
Webster is a busy person these days. As a certified addiction specialist and founder of Alpha Intervention, she's dealing with what she sees as a worsening problem - addiction in the workplace.
As a recruiting executive who was also an alcoholic, Webster knows ...
Substance Abuse Rates Low in Hispanic Americans: U.S. Report
Hispanic-American adults have lower rates of alcohol and illicit drug use than the national averages, a federal government study has found.
The research revealed that 46.1 percent of Hispanic-American adults drink alcohol and 6.6 percent use illicit drugs, compared with national average rates of 55.2 percent and 7.9 percent, respectively.
However, Hispanic-American adults have a slightly ...
Genes May Determine Susceptibility to Social Drinking Cues
A new study has found that your genes influence the ways in which you respond to environmental social drinking cues such as alcohol advertisements and seeing other people drinking. The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, was conducted by Helle Larsen from Radboud University in the Netherlands and her colleagues. Alcohol consumption increases the ...
How alcohol treatment helps
For alcoholics to get back on their feet and become sober, alcohol treatment is very important.
This treatment lets alcoholics and their families undergo intensive counseling and therapy and give them the tools needed in understanding the effects of alcoholism individually and generally.
There are many different kinds of methods and philosophy used in alcohol treatment, but they all aim the ...
Mountain Medicine: Warning signs of problem drinking
To understand what a responsible level of alcohol use is, one needs to know the warning signs of problem drinking.
Here are four red flags to be aware of:
-- Increased tolerance -- is when a person can consume large amounts of alcohol and not seem impaired. It usually indicates he or she drinks frequently or heavily and that his or her body has adapted by needing more alcohol for the ...
The Science Behind Drinking: Testing for Alcohol Consumption and Abuse
As actress Lindsay Lohan now knows, there are a variety of ways to test a person's bodily fluids for alcohol consumption, both before and after an arrest for driving under the influence and to monitor adherence during rehabilitation. During her recent probation for DUI, Ms. Lohan found herself in a special ankle bracelet that uses Breathalyzer technology to sample the sweat on the skin every ...
Binge drinking is on the rise: study
More Americans are bellying up to the bar: Binge drinking – consuming five or more drinks in a day – is on the rise, according to a new study on the nation's drinking habits reported on CNN.com.
This trend appears consistent for everyone – men, women, blacks, whites and Hispanics. But the people who already drink aren't drinking more – the study found that the average ...
Men and women respond equally to naltrexone as treatment for alcohol dependence
While the prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in the United States during the 1980s was roughly five times more common among men than women, the gap between the genders has narrowed: AUDs are now only twice as prevalent in men than in women. Treatment for alcohol dependence (AD) utilizes multiple therapeutic modalities, including pharmacotherapy. This study found that women respond to ...
Mom's Alcoholism Especially Tough on Daughter's Mental Health
The risk that children of an alchoholic parent run of developing a psychiatric illness later in life may depend, in part, on their gender and whether it was their mother or father who was alcohol-dependent, a new study finds.
The link appears to be strongest between mothers and daughters, according to the new findings, says a team from Yale University.
It was already known that the adult ...
Individuals with alcohol problems find comfort in speaking to clergy
A new study indicates that individuals find comfort in confessing their alcohol problems to the clergy.
University of Michigan Health System and Saint Louis University researchers also found that majority of those who used services from clergy also used professional services at some point.
The study revealed that clergy services are an important part of the overall system of care for ...
Alcohol Use Rate Among American Indian or Alaska Native Adults is Well Below the National Average
But Native American or Alaska Native adults have a higher rate of binge drinking than the national average
Newswise — A new national study reveals that the rate of past month alcohol use (i.e., at least one drink in the past 30 days) among American Indian or Alaska Native adults is significantly lower than the national average for adults (43.9 percent versus 55.2 percent). The study, ...
Antidepressant may aid domestic abusers who drink
A combination of antidepressants, alcohol counseling and behavioral therapy may help curb violent tendencies in men with drinking problems, a small clinical trial suggests.
U.S. government researchers found that adding the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) to alcohol treatment and behavioral therapy worked better than the latter two alone in reducing anger and aggression among alcoholic men ...
Alcohol Gets More Dangerous as You Get Older
A new UCLA study has supported scientists' concerns that alcohol abuse by the elderly has become a major national health problem.
The researchers found that more than a third of American drinkers age 60 and over are at risk of harm because of alcohol's interaction with their diseases or their medications -- or simply because they are imbibing too much.
Among those at risk, a ...
New Approach Can Help Overcome Addiction
Alcoholism is a difficult addiction to beat, but a newly available, multifaceted approach offers a less stressful and potentially more successful way to beat the craving.
The medically proven treatment, although new to the U.S., has had an 85 percent success rate in more than 4,000 patients overseas.
The approach has been so successful because it treats the addiction on both a physical and ...
Steps Toward Recovery
More than 50,000 recovering alcoholics from around the world have converged on San Antonio to celebrate 75 years of Alcoholics Anonymous, whose enduring legacy — and mysterious power — is its famous 12 steps to recovery.
The basic idea contained in those 12 steps is that to stop drinking, alcoholics must admit they are powerless over their addiction and need the help of a power greater ...
Suppressing anger can make you a mean drunk
Getting drunk increases the risk for violent behavior, but only for people who have a strong tendency to suppress feelings of anger when sober, a new Scandinavian study suggests.
While previous studies have found a link between drinking and aggressive or violent actions, many of these were either performed in a laboratory, which does not necessarily reflect what real-world drunkenness, or ...
Long Term Effects of Alcohol on Your Body
Alcoholism has reached epidemic proportions the world over. Over consumption of alcohol is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the world. In fact, excessive alcohol consumption is the 3rd leading lifestyle related cause of death in the United States on a yearly basis. There are many long term effects of alcohol on your body that you need to beware of. The adverse effects of long ...
Physical Consequences and Alcohol Abuse
Effects of alcohol addiction can be extremely devastating. The worse part is that alcohol abuse not just affects the drinker but those around her or him as well. The effects of addiction can be both physical and psychological. Basically, alcoholism is an illness that interferes with physical or mental health and negatively impacts family or occupational responsibilities.
Physical effects of ...
How to Break Ingrained Patterns of Drinking Behavior
If you’ve made the difficult decision to stop drinking, you’ve already taken the all-important first step. Nothing happens without conscious intent – especially when it comes to altering behavior involving alcohol. Whether you were a moderate drinker who has stepped over the line and become a problem drinker or someone who has been abusing alcohol [...] ...
DUIAttorney Blog Highlights Connection Between Alcohol Addiction and DUI
What is the difference between alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse? Why do majority of drinking and driving involve multiple offenders? Is there any point where you can drink and drive?
Leading DUI blog for DUIAttorneyHome.com answers these questions in a recent post.
You were caught drinking and driving for the second time. You were just pulled over as a minor under the influence. Or ...
More boomers being treated for addiction
A new study finds more and more adults over age 50 are seeking treatment for drug addiction.
Alcohol is by far the most common form of addiction for the over 50 crowd.
A new government study finds the proportion of older adults in treatment for alcohol and drug abuse nearly doubled between 1992 and 2008.
Most say they started using drugs many years earlier, before age 25.
There was ...
For alcohol dependence with depression, two meds may be better than one
The latest research to bolster the argument for combination treatments could offer hope to professionals treating co-occurring alcohol dependence and depression. A study published March 15 in the online advance edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry found that patients taking both the opioid antagonist naltrexone and the antidepressant sertraline were able to maintain abstinence from ...
Close the Substance Abusing Chapter of Your Life and Move On
Anyone who’s beginning treatment or living in early recovery recognizes that this is a whole new chapter in their life. Not all of those initial chapters are either predictable or pre-ordained. Much like a novel, what happens next is often quite surprising. It’s certainly filled with challenges. Using the book analogy to your journey to [...] ...
Blending schooling with treatment
Receive life-changing treatment or stay on course to graduate? It's not a decision a family should have to make when considering what's best for a daughter dealing with an addiction or an eating disorder. Yet this is the situation in which many families find themselves when considering treatment. With National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders data showing that age of onset ...
Heavy Drinking and Cancer Linked at Cellular Level
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research identifies structures at the cellular level that appear to explain a link between heavy alcohol use and cancer. ...
Effort to Cut Mass. Alcohol Taxes Defeated
The Massachusetts House of Representatives has rejected Republican-led efforts to roll back a recent state sales-tax increase that included alcoholic beverages. ...
Study Says Kids Who Watch R-Rated Movies More Likely to Drink
Children whose parents allow them to watch R-rated movies are more likely to drink alcohol than their peers, exclusive of any other parenting decisions, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical School. ...
One in Three Elderly Drinkers Face High Risk of Harm, Study Finds
One-third of American drinkers over age 60 consume excessive amounts of alcohol, are at risk of dangerous interactions between alcohol and medications, or have illnesses that can be exacerbated by drinking, according to researchers. ...
Anti-Alcohol Ads Featuring Children Withstand Parent Protests
Parent complaints that two United Kingdom television ads featuring children discussing drinking's negative effects might upset young viewers have failed to block the ads' airing. ...
Young Drinkers Influenced More by Alcohol Ads than by Athletes' Drinking Behavior
Reports of heavy drinking by sports stars appear to have little influence on young people's own drinking behavior, but use of athletes in alcohol advertising carries considerably more weight. ...
High-Alcohol Beer Coming to Stores in Calif., NYC
A Scottish microbrewery that has received intense criticism for marketing products with an alcohol content far exceeding popular brands is shipping one of its beers to select retailers in California and New York City. ...
Helping Drinkers Assess Risk and Change Behavior: AlcoholScreening.org Expands
This month, AlcoholScreening.org was re-launched with expanded intervention tools that not only help drinkers identify unhealthy drinking patterns but assist them in developing a personal action plan to change their behavior. ...
Heavy alcohol use, binge drinking, might increase risk of pancreatic cancer, researcher reports
Heavy alcohol use and binge drinking could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in men, new research suggests. ...
Receptor variant influences dopamine response to alcohol
Researchers showed that human subjects with the 118G variant of the mu-opioid receptor released dopamine from the ventrial striatum of the brain in response to alcohol, while those with the more common 118A variant of this receptor did not. They then demonstrated that mice carrying the gene for the 118G receptor variant showed a fourfold higher peak dopamine response to alcohol compared to mice ...
Investigating separate and joint effects of alcohol and tobacco on the nucleus accumbens
The brain's nucleus accumbens (NAC) is a core region of the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system. The mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system plays an important role in addiction. New findings show distinct gene expression patterns for alcoholics, smokers and smoking alcoholics in the NAC. ...
Study overturns decade-old findings in neurobiology: Research suggests potential target for drugs to combat alcohol addiction
In findings that should finally put to rest a decade of controversy in the field of neurobiology, researchers have found decisive evidence that a specific neurotransmitter system -- the endocannabinoid system -- is active in a brain region known to play a key role in the processing of memory, emotional reactions and addiction formation. ...
Genetic differences that make you sleepy when you drink can also protect against alcohol dependence
Genetic differences in alcohol-metabolizing enzymes can affect a person's risk for alcohol dependence (AD). A variant of the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme, ADH1B*3, is found predominantly in populations with African ancestry and is associated with reduced rates of AD. New findings indicate lower rates of AD may be associated with greater sedation in those with ADH1B*3. ...
Hospital interventions for medical inpatients with unhealthy drinking behaviors
Medical inpatients often demonstrate unhealthy drinking practices. A new study on the effectiveness of hospital interventions has found that focusing on alcohol-attributable illnesses may serve as the strongest catalyst for changing drinking habits. ...
High rates of at-risk drinking among elderly adults, study finds
Researchers find that more than a third of drinkers 60 years old and older consume amounts of alcohol that are excessive or that are potentially harmful in combination with certain diseases they may have or medications they may be taking. ...
One in ten drinkers plan on consuming more than 40 units of alcohol in a single evening
Using measures of blood alcohol concentration, self-assessed and observer-assessed drunkenness, a study in the North West of England has confirmed the overwhelming prevalence of extreme alcohol consumption in UK nightlife. Researchers interviewed and "breathalyzed" revelers, finding that one in ten intended to drink more than 40 units by home time, with those using extended licensing hours having ...
Couples therapy can be the best choice for alcohol-dependent women with supportive spouses
A woman who wants to break her dependence on alcohol, and has a spouse willing to join her in that fight, has a real chance for success. ...
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder linked to high prevalence of epilepsy
Children with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can suffer from many developmental problems. New findings show a very high prevalence of epilepsy/seizures in the FASD population. First-trimester drinking, and drinking during all three trimesters, were the predominant forms of fetal alcohol exposure. ...
Your social network may affect your drinking habits
According to a new study, the drinking habits of the people in your extended social group play a major role in determining your own rate of alcohol consumption. ...
Gauging an alcohol addict's engagement in Alcoholics Anonymous
A researcher has established an empirical model to quantify and gauge an alcohol addicts' level of engagement in Alcoholics Anonymous-related helping. ...
Binge drinking doesn't affect next-day student test-taking
In a first-of-its kind controlled experiment, researchers have found that surprisingly, binge drinking the night before a test does not impact college students' test performance -- although it can affect their moods, attention and reaction times. ...
Alcohol in moderation is good for sick hearts too, Italian study suggests
A new study shows that moderate consumption, one or two glasses of wine a day or the equivalent amounts of beer or other alcoholic beverages, significantly reduces the risk of death from any cause in those who already suffered from ischemic vascular disease. ...
Risky drinkers less likely to take good care of themselves and seek medical care
A study of 7,884 men and women that found people who engage in frequent heavy drinking report significantly worse health-related practices, such as not wearing seat belts, unhealthy eating, and failing to visit their doctor regularly. The study also found women who drink heavily report worse general and mental health than men who drink at that same level. ...
Examining alcohol use disorders through gene networks instead of individual genes
Multiple genetic, environmental and behavioral factors contribute to alcohol use disorders (AUDs). A person's level of response (LR) to alcohol can indicate a person's risk for developing AUDs. A new study has looked at "gene networks" instead of individual genes to confirm the influence of glutamate receptor signaling genes on a person's LR. ...
Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer In Men May Be Increased By Heavy Alcohol Use, Binge Drinking
Heavy alcohol use and binge drinking could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in men, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests. In a study available online in Cancer Causes and Control, researchers found that the more alcohol a man consumed, the higher his risk of pancreatic cancer compared with those who drank little or no alcohol... ...
Nurse-led Interventions Can Help 40% Of Alcoholics To Abstain From Alcohol, UK
Regular information and advice sessions from alcohol specialist nurses could help 40% of dependent drinkers to give up alcohol altogether according to research presented at the Royal College of Nursing's 2010 International Research Conference in Gateshead... ...
Computer Modeling To Identify New Medications For Nicotine Addiction
A project using cutting edge computer modeling to identify potential new medications for nicotine addiction won first place distinction at the annual Addiction Science Awards at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) --- the world's largest science competition for high school students... ...
Link Between Frequent Alcohol Use And Faster HIV Disease Progression
HIV disease tends to progress at a faster rate in infected individuals who consume two or more alcoholic drinks a day, according to an important new paper in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available free online... ...
Drinking During Pregnancy Could Increase Child's Risk Of Rare Leukemia
Researchers from France and the UK who reviewed the scientific literature found that drinking alcohol during pregnancy was linked to a significantly higher risk of children developing a rare form of leukemia called acute myeloid leukemia (AML)... ...
'Hair Of The Dog' May Help Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms But It Also Increases Alcohol Dependency
University of Southampton study provides new insight into how alcohol affects brain function. Research defines alcohol's impact on signalling in nerve pathways. Drinking alcohol over a long period of time profoundly affects the brain, which adapts to the intoxicant and causes withdrawal symptoms when consumption stops... ...
Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy Could Lead To Acute Myeloid Leukemia In Children
Although acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is relatively rare in children, drinking alcohol during pregnancy could increase the risk, according to a recent paper published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Julie Ross, Ph.D... ...
