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  • US: GA: Service dog a calming presence for entire family


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    Link: http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton/service-dog-a-calming-188966.html Bita Honarvar, bhonarvar@ajc.com Iyal Winokur, 11, hangs out with his service dog Chancer at his Roswell home. Iyal has fetal alcohol syndrome and can have tantrums. Chancer helps to calm him. Eleven-year-old Morasha Winokur never ...
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  • US: MA: Volunteers take aim at underage drinking


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    Link: http://www.thetranscript.com/northberkshirenews/ci_13746035?source=rss By Meghan Foley Olivia Case places an informational sticker on some... (Holly Pelczynski/North Adams Transcript) WILLIAMSTOWN -- With rolls of stickers in hand, groups of volunteers visited local package stores on Sunday in an ...
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  • US: Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. is Proud to Announce its Continued Support of the “SoBe Sober” Initiative


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    Link: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/moreover/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId;=20091109005128&newsLang;=en Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. Expands Efforts to Prevent Underage Drinking Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc., the nation’s leading wine and spirits distributor, ...
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  • US: NY: Teen Boys Drink, Fight More, Girls Less, When Playing Sports


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    Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid;=aP4ya7B6YYt0 By Aaron Kuriloff Playing team sports increases teenage boys’ likelihood to binge drink and fight, while reducing unhealthy behavior in girls, a study found. Teen girls who played team sports said they fought less, were depressed ...
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  • UK: Make mine a big softy! Alcohol-free drinks for grown ups are Britains trendiest tipple


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    Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1226541/Make-big-softy-Alcohol-free-drinks-grown-ups-Britains-trendiest-tipple.html By Victoria Moore Dare we hope that the days when the alternative to drinking wine or beer was to be given a glass and shown the way to the kitchen tap might almost be behind us? ...
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  • UK: Students don fancy dress for Carnage bar crawl


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    Link: http://itn.co.uk/8014353f437bca67c88212cbf54ef738.html Hundreds of university students dressed as doctors and nurses have taken part in an organised bar crawl as part of the latest controversial Carnage UK event. Students paid £10 for a distinctive Carnage T-shirt which granted them entry to a number ...
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  • UK: North-east brewery’s extra-strong beer is banned by UK watchdog


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    Link: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1474174?UserKey= By Ryan Crighton Health experts say Britain’s strongest stout promotes unhealthy binge drinking The north-east brewery behind Britain’s strongest beer has been told that the 18.2% alcohol content stout will be banned in the UK because ...
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  • New Zealand: Lesson learnt from drinking binge


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    Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3048210/Lesson-learnt-from-drinking-binge By LYN HUMPHREYS CAMERON BURNELL/Taranaki Daily News OUT OF HERE: Tourist Brian Robertson says hes learned a valuable lesson about who not to trust after a New Plymouth drinking session turned bad. American Brian ...
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  • New Zealand: Sporty teens more violent - study


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    Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/3048749/Sporty-teens-more-violent-study Teenage boys involved in high school team sports are less likely to get depressed or smoke but they are more associated with increased fighting and binge drinking, according to a US study. The findings by Ohios Injury ...
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  • Germany: Drunken German boy in ICU


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    Link: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click;_id=24&art;_id=nw20091109160504626C554367 Berlin - A seven-year-old boy was admitted to intensive care on Monday in Germany after being found in a drunken stupor on a pavement, police said. Passers-by spotted the youngster in Berlin being sick and ...
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  • Binge drinking damages brain


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    Link: http://www.health24.com/news/Addiction_Substance_abuse/1-887,53261.asp Nearly half of students at four-year colleges do it regularly (and, its not sex). Rather, its binge drinking -- downing five or more alcoholic drinks at a sitting. "People have a hard time identifying alcohol as a drug," said Jenny ...
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  • UK: Simon Carr: I drink a bottle of wine a day, but dont call me an alcoholic


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    Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/simon-carr/simon-carr-i-drink-a-bottle-of-wine-a-day-but-dont-call-me-an-alcoholic-1817283.html Simon Carr Binge-drinking, I can remember, was once praised as being safer than steady soaking A phrase in a readers letter last week caught my bloodshot ...
    3 days ago
  • Australia: Drinkers to decide brews fate


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    Link: http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/11/09/108635_food-wine.html IN a first for a Tasmanian boutique brewery, the future of a new stout will be decided by Hobart beer drinkers. Moo Brew head brewer Owen Johnston gets ready for Tasmanian Beerfest, which starts on Thursday. There is only one keg ...
    3 days ago
  • Australia: Get tough on underage drinking, says Stokes


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    Link: http://manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/get-tough-on-drink/ by REBECCA WOOLLEY Police may need police greater powers to target teenagers drinking in parks. LAWS allowing police to deal with underage drinkers need to be beefed up to deal with the binge drinking on the northern beaches, says ...
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  • Australia: Alcohol abuse worries police


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    Link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/09/2737104.htm Shoalhaven police say they are disturbed by the number of people ignoring stern warnings about binge drinking and alcohol-related violence in the New South Wales Illawarra. A 22-year-old Narrawallee man who police say was intoxicated was fined ...
    3 days ago
  • Germany: Seven-year-old found on Berlin sidewalk with alcohol poisoning


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    Link: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091109-23119.html A seven-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was found on a Berlin sidewalk with dangerously high amounts of alcohol in his system on Sunday evening, police reported. Residents in the city’s Spandau district alarmed emergency rescuers ...
    3 days ago
  • China: Chinese official dead after boozy banquet


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    Link: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20091109-178751.html A Communist Party official has been found dead after an alcohol-fuelled dinner with investors, highlighting the dangers of Chinas tradition of mixing booze and business, state media said Monday. Shen Hao, party secretary in ...
    3 days ago
  • Spain: Spanish teens fight for their right ... to par-tay.


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    Link: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/spain/091106/spaniards-fight-their-rightto-par-tay By Cristina Mateo-Yanguas Botellones, or binge-drinking parties, persist in Spain despite bans, complaints and the odd cooking class. Teenagers drink during a macrobotellon (drinking session) in Granada, southern ...
    3 days ago
  • For Teens, It’s Not A Drink, It’s A Drug


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    Link: http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=42207&CHID;=32 By Brian M. Kelley ADOLESCENCE IS A pivotal developmental period marked by dramatic changes in bodily processes and thinking. These abrupt changes contribute to risky behaviors in teens such as substance use, reckless driving and ...
    3 days ago
  • Brit student pub-crawls come under fire over booze-induced mayhem


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    London, November 8 (ANI): A firm that arranges drinking events for students in the UK may face a ban after an undergraduate urinated on a war memorial during an event organised by the organisation.Student unions are seeking to put a lid on Carnage UK that organises parties for an estimated 350,000 undergraduates in 45 ...
    4 days ago

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