After a Web site published photos of him drunkenly cavorting with scantily clad women in a bar last January, Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton admitted to relapsing. He said before January, he hadn’t drank since October 6, 2005. Hamilton made headlines last season when he emerged from the depths of drug and alcohol addiction to [...]
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Scientists have been pondering why certain individuals are more predisposed to alcohol dependency than others for decades, as alcoholism can be influenced by neurobiology, personality traits, and individual and social influences. Scientists know how alcohol affects the central nervous system, but the exact mechanism of action remains obscure.
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The Australian outback town of Halls Creek recently became the latest Aboriginal town to restrict alcohol sales, and as a result, there has been a steep decrease in nighttime brawls. The New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi writes that the “scores of Aboriginal men and women who milled around the one liquor store in the afternoon [...]
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British coroner William Armstrong said that alcohol is now a major public health problem and blamed discounted alcohol for the soaring number of alcohol-related deaths. He criticized the government’s introduction of 24-hour alcohol licenses, which he said had failed to have the desired effect of ushering in more leisurely drinking habits.
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One of the toughest circumstances to overcome is to grow up in a family where alcoholism is a daily nightmare. It doesn’t matter that you hide it from your friends or that you tell yourself that lots of families have this problem. The truth is that you aren’t really hiding your family’s problems with alcohol [...]
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Drinking myths have been around forever, and it never ceases to amaze how many new twists on the old ones crop up. Separating fact from fiction takes a little digging in some instances, while others are just plain wrong on the face of it. Here are some of the more common myths about chronic drinking, [...]
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A report this week from Health Day News stated that alcohol use is up as well as illnesses and deaths associated with heavy consumption. They stated that one in twenty-five deaths can be attributed to alcohol. Globally, the average amount each person drinks is about 1.6 gallons per year. That means on average people are [...]
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