Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Thursday, September 6, 2018

A Night of Serious Drinking: The Results

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"A systematic review of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognitive performance" The latest scientific ru...
Friday, May 25, 2018

The Myth of Healthy Drinking

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Another meta-study demolishes decades of wishful thinking. Vox notes that "an impressive new meta-study involving 600,000 partic...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Alcohol and Cancer, Explained

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"Alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage chromosomes and mutate stem cells" Juan I. Garaycoechea, Gerry P. Crossan, Frédéric ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Alcohol Should Be More Expensive

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Without a doubt, the alcohol you're drinking this Holiday Season is too damn cheap. By all means check out the new piece by ...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Cancer: Alcohol’s Dirty Little Secret?

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What Doctors Don’t Tell You It is, in fact, no secret at all that alcohol causes cancer .  Rather than conferring any demonstrable meta...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

From Failure to Enthusiasm

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Guest Post By Andy "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill One of the...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Alcohol and Refugee Populations

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How displaced peoples are harmed and helped by alcohol. Although it is impossible to know with certainty, 50 million is the current U.N...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Tripling the Tax on Alcohol

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Would it do any good? A recent article in Slate by Reihan Salam, a sort of modest proposal on behalf of a big boost in alcohol excise ...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Fruit Fly Larvae Go Cold Turkey and Forget the Car Keys

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Not a pretty sight. Let’s start with the fruit fly, your basic Drosophila. A fruit fly, like a human, can become addicted to alcohol...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Twelve Months of Addiction Box

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(Inspired by Twelve Months of Drug Monkey ) Drug Monkey writes: The rules for this blog meme are quite simple. -Post the link and fi...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Have a Smart Christmas and a Harm-Reduced New Year

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Thoughts on addiction and the holidays. Addiction During the Holidays: Recovered or Not, It’s Important to be Prepared  [Adi Jaffe, Ps...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

How Many Calories in Your Daily Alcohol?

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Booze as food. Everywhere we turn, the news is packed with stories about the nation’s obesity epidemic. But one little-discussed fact a...
Friday, November 16, 2012

NIH Director Calls Off NIDA-NIAAA Merger

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Nation’s addiction research institutes to remain separate but unequal. Two years ago, the National Institutes of Health’s Scientific Ma...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Short Subjects

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Brief news on drugs and addiction. The editorial staff at Addiction Inbox (see photo), occasionally finds itself overwhelmed with news...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Dude, where’s my metaconsciousness?

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“Lost in the sauce.” I have to admit I was taken with the opening sentence of this 2009 study published in Psychological Sciences :...
Friday, March 16, 2012

LSD and Alcohol: The History

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Back when acid was legal. After last week’s blitz of coverage concerning studies done in the 60s on the use of LSD for the treatment of al...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Harm Reduction Advocate Takes on the Abstinence Question

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A guest editorial on “clean and sober” vs “drinking less.” One of the most divisive issues in the harm reduction movement is the question...
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