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Perception May Affect Drinking by College Students
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
MONDAY, July 20 – If college students knew their friends really weren't drinking as much as it might seem, they might cut back on alcohol, a new study suggests.
Researchers from Oxford Brookes University in England reviewed 22 studies that included nearly 7,275 students, most in the United States. The researchers divided the students into two groups: those who participated in intervention programs designed to help them decrease their alcohol consumption and students who didn't.
Interventions included education about the risks of drinking heavily, information about how much college students normally drink and education about their own drinking habits, including quantity consumed, caloric intake and money spent on alcohol. Read more...
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Health Tip: Don't Abuse Alcohol
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
-- An occasional glass of beer or wine may help you relax, but excessive alcohol consumption is dangerous.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drinking too much increases the risk of: Read more...
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Increasing Alcohol Use Tied to More Hospitalization
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, July 1 – The more alcohol men drink, the more time they spend in a hospital, research from the United Kingdom has found.
The study, which involved nearly 6,000 men in Scotland ages 35 to 64, began during the early 1970s. Initially, the men were given a comprehensive health examination and were asked about their alcohol consumption. Based on their answers, they were placed in different groups: no alcohol, 1 to 7 units a week, 8 to 14 units a week, 15 to 21 units a week, 22 to 34 units a week and 35 or more units a week or more.
A unit of alcohol, or an average drink, was considered to be half a pint of beer (about a cup) or a 4-ounce glass of wine, for example, according to the study. Read more...
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Alcohol-Related Ills Increasing Worldwide
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, June 25 – Consumption of alcohol is up, and so it seems are the ills associated with it. Worldwide, one in 25 deaths and 5 percent of the years that people live with health-related disabilities are related to alcohol, according to a new study. Read more...
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Tough Legislation on Underage Drinking Seems to Save Lives
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, April 7 – Not all laws are created equal when it comes to reducing the number of drinking-related auto accidents, say researchers who analyzed the impact of underage drinking laws and alcohol-related traffic fatalities.
Most effective, they found, are laws targeting the purchase and possession of alcohol by youth, including use-and-lose laws that allow the suspension of a driver's license for any underage alcohol violation and zero-tolerance laws that make it illegal for young people to drive with any amount of alcohol in their system. Read more...
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Parents Worry That 'Alcopops' Encourage Teen Drinking
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, April 7 – Flavored alcoholic beverages – dubbed alcopops – contribute to underage drinking and should carry warning labels, say many American adults who took part in a new national survey.
"Alcopops are sweet drinks made to taste like cola or soda pop or punch or lemonade. Typically, alcopops have between 5 and 8 percent alcohol content, which is a little bit more than most beers, and they're marketed to look like familiar drinks to kids," Dr. Matthew Davis, director of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, said in a news release. Read more...
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How Much Should Women Drink? It Depends on Who You Ask
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, March 27 – College women, listen up: You don't need to drink to excess to impress college men, a new study has found.
"Although traditionally, men drink more than women, research has shown that women have steadily been drinking more and more over the last several decades," study author Joseph LaBrie, an associate professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, said in a news release from the American Psychological Association. "Our research suggests women believe men find excessive drinking sexually attractive and appealing, but it appears this is a giant misperception." Read more...
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Variations in Gene DNA Boost Drinkers' Cancer Risk
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, Jan. 30 – Variations in the DNA of certain genes can increase the risk of cancer in people who drink alcohol, according to researchers who reviewed studies on alcohol consumption, genetic polymorphisms and cancer.
Their analysis suggests that such variations, called gene polymorphisms, in two enzymes – alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) – involved in metabolizing alcohol significantly increase alcohol drinkers' risk of cancers of the head and neck and the esophagus.
The researchers looked at the effect of gene variations in other enzymes involved in alcohol and folate metabolism but found there wasn't enough data to fully assess the effect of those gene variants on cancer risk. Read more...
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