People who use hand sanitizer frequently, especially formulas containing alcohol, may see unexpected positive results in alcohol use tests, says a University of Florida study.
People who use hand sanitizer frequently, especially formulas containing alcohol, may see unexpected positive results in alcohol use tests, says a University of Florida study.
In the United States, most young people begin drinking alcohol at age 13, and every day, more than 5,000 kids under 16 have their first taste of alcohol. With the prevalence of underage drinking, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health decided to look into how many young people are exposed to alcohol advertising through magazines. They found that exposure decreased by 48 percent between 2001 and 2008. In 2003, the alcohol industry voluntarily pledged to not place alcohol ads in magazines with more than 30 percent youth readership.
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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.
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A new study finds that drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes were associated with migraines and tension headaches in high-school students. Coffee drinking and physical inactivity were also linked with migraines.
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Despite widespread media and educational efforts to spread awareness of the dangers of alcohol consumption for expectant and breastfeeding mothers, a recent survey in Australia reveals that one-third of new mothers are still drinking alcohol.
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Four unhealthy behaviors–smoking, lack of physical activity, poor diet, and alcohol consumption–appear to be associated with a substantially increased risk of death when combined, according to a report in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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The Youth Commission on Alcohol, a group of 16 Scottish volunteers aged between 14 and 22, has spent a year preparing its 38 recommendations for banning advertising alcohol in public. Commission members supported plans for a minimum price for alcohol but said it would not solve problem drinking. They called for more lessons in school about alcohol abuse and research into the impact of passive drinking.
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At the Acme Bar and Grill in downtown Annapolis, MD, women making a trip to the restroom are greeted by a life-sized image of a drunken woman slumped on the ground, a beer can in one hand. Men are met by a tattooed man sprawled out over a stall, just as he is about to vomit. These cutout images help remind customers not to drive and drive, and they refer them to a website: www.duiis4losers.com.
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After driving with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit and nearly decapitating a 19-year-old woman, Army Sgt. Edison Bayas is serving a 15-year prison sentence for intoxication manslaughter. The decorated career soldier is just one of thousands whose problems with alcohol spun out of control in the midst of two wars.
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According to a new study, the type of alcohol consumed effects the severity of the following day’s hangover. To better understand the effects of alcohol, specifically the levels of toxic substances called congeners in the alcohol, researchers at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies in Providence, Rhode Island, and the University of Michigan Medical School recruited 95 healthy heavy drinkers, 58 men and 37 women, between the ages of 21 and 33 residing in the greater Boston area. Prior to the study, none of the participants had ever been treated for alcohol-related problems, and none had experienced any form of sleep disorders.
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