Showing posts with label alcoholism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcoholism. 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, August 24, 2018

There Is No "Safe" Amount of Alcohol

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  Moderate daily drinking will not improve your health. As a growing number of addiction and alcohol consumption researchers have been ...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

The NIAAA and Big Alcohol

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Officials halt government study on moderate drinking funded by alcohol industry The New York Times reports: “The extensive government...
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...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Do Alcoholic Women Want Women-Only Treatment?

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It's complicated.  In an article appearing in the June 29 edition of the journal Addiction, researchers ask women what they think ...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

New Study Casts Doubt on Current "Despair" Models of Addiction

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The recent Hari/Hart/Lewis hypothesis that addiction is not primarily metabolic or genetic, but rather the result of "despair"...
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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 ...
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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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Jack London and his Alcoholic Memoirs

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Meet John Barleycorn. In the early years of the 20th Century, writer Jack London was the equivalent of a rock star. A ruggedly good-...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Another Look at Acamprosate

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The most popular pharmaceutical treatment for alcoholism, explained. (First published February 17, 2014) “Occasionally,” reads t...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Alcohol and Your Heart

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Health benefits of moderate drinking come under fire. One of those things that “everybody knows” about alcohol is that a drink or two p...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Gone in June

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Alcohol takes a friend. What good does it do: You write about addiction, research it, think about it, formulate new ideas about it. Y...
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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, April 27, 2014

How Alcoholism Causes Muscle Weakness

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It’s a mitochondrial thing. Chronic alcohol intake weakens muscles. This condition can take the form of numbness or shooting pains in a...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Acamprosate For Alcohol: Why the Research Might Be Wrong

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Calcium may be curbing the urge to drink. “Occasionally,” reads the opening sentence of a commentary published online last month in ...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Hazelden Offers Companion to the “Big Book”

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New guide attempts a modest AA update. The founders of AA published their book, Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) back in 1939. The ...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Dr. David Nutt on Alcohol

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Rebutting industry myths. A couple of years ago, the European Alcohol Policy Alliance, known as EuroCare, put together a brochure add...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Researchers Link Alcoholism and Binge Eating Behavior

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Addiction and the role of genetic overlap. More evidence has arrived, courtesy of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Lo...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Building Better Baby Brains: Just Say No To FAS

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is our most preventable form of disability. Despite a growing focus on the hazards of prescription painkill...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Thursday is National Alcohol Screening Day

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Assess your drinking risk with this easy test. The more you drink, the less likely you are to accurately perceive the risks of heavy dr...