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• US: KS: Alcohol on the brain: a look at the long term

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.kansan.com/news/2009/dec/07/alcohol-brain-look-long-term/?news By Ray Segebrecht For years, Ben had assumed all alcoholics were homeless, men huddling below bridges inside cardboard boxes and nursing bottles out of paper bags like he saw in movies. But that was before Ben began college and ...
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• Many Drug Addicts and Alcoholics See Holidays as a Trigger

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/many-drug-addicts-and-alcoholics-see-holidays-as-a-trigger-127647.php Apart from the warm and merry imagery of the holiday season perfectly captured in paintings by Currier Ives and Norman Rockwell, there is also a sad and less publicized side that makes the ...
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• Alcohol before the age of 18 OK, half of Australian parents say

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/body-soul/alcohol-before-the-age-of18-ok-half-of-australian-parents-say/story-e6frf01r-1225805924884?from=public_rss By Sue Dunlevy HALF of all parents think teenagers should be allowed to drink alcohol before they turn 18. The concept has its greatest support ...
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• Signs of alcoholism and treatment

  
  Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window — Authority: 418
  April is traditionally “National Alcohol Awareness Month”, but I thought seeing how this week begins “National Drunk Driving Prevention Month” that I would take a moment out of my regular to discuss alcoholism.Many of us enjoy a drink of alcohol every now and then, especially during the holiday season, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• RCT of CBT for coexisting depression and alcohol problems: short-term outcome

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  Randomized controlled trial of cognitive–behavioural therapy for coexisting depression and alcohol problems: short-term outcome, Addiction, 2009 Amanda L. Baker, David J. Kavanagh et al.. Abstract: Aims  Alcohol use disorders and depression co-occur frequently and are associated with poorer ...
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• Australia: Dont Let Your Teenager Become a Schoolies Statistic

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/mr-yr09-nr-nr216.htm Parents are urged to warn their teenagers about the risks of binge drinking as thousands of school-leavers prepare to head to Schoolies Week activities around the country. With the Rudd Government’s ‘Don’t Turn a ...
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• Suicide and Alcohol Abuse

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 121
   Characteristics of suicide attempts preceded by alcohol consumption. Acute alcohol ingestion and alcohol dependence are known to increase the risk of impulsive suicide attempt even in non-depressed patients.The relation between alcohol and suicide risk needs, however, to be clarified. We assessed for this purpose ...
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• Canada: Aggressive liquor sales targets a blurred vision

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1153806.html RACHEL BRIGHTON ADVENTUROUS young women in Halifax could be a boon for the ailing provincial economy — if only they would drink more alcohol. According to the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp., women in the capital city, up to 45 years of age, present the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Australia: CMC proposes incentives to phase out alcohol restrictions in indigenous communities

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/state-politics/cmc-proposes-incentives-to-phase-out-alcohol-restrictions-in-indigenous-communities/story-e6frgczx-1225800168434 Michael McKenna ABORIGINAL communities in Queensland need more help and should be offered incentives to change the drinking culture so ...
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• Treating alcohol-use disorders and tuberculosis together

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/ace-tad111609.php » Treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and tuberculosis (TB) is rarely integrated, even though the two diseases have a high co-occurrence. » American and Russian researchers have jointly designed and are monitoring an innovative ...
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• TWO MILLION ALCOHOLICS IN SPAIN

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 154
  Link: http://www.theleader.info/article/20566/spain/national/two-million-alcoholics-in-spain/ According to the latest figures released there are now nearly two million alcoholics in Spain. In the new report from the Federation of Rehabilitated Alcoholics they say the profile has changed; most of them now are ...
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• The Role of AA Sponsors

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 433
  A pilot study of the role of AA sponsors An AA sponsor is a close 1-on-1 collaboration between an older sober member and a relative newcomer to sobriety. Its a two way helping relationship, the sponsor affirms their own sobriety and the sponsee gains new insights. AIMS: The aim of this study was to explore the ...
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