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27 Votes
Off-Campus College Party Hosts Drink More Than Attendees
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On any given weekend, at least 10 percent of students at a single college could be hosting a party, and on average, party hosts who live off campus are drinking more and engaging in more alcohol-related problem behaviors than are the students attending their bashes, research suggests...
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35 Votes
When Anticipating Rewards, Adolescents' And Adults' Brains Respond Differently
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Teenagers are more susceptible to developing disorders like addiction and depression, according to a paper published by Pitt researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was led by Bita Moghaddam, coauthor of the paper and a professor of neuroscience in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences...
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24 Votes
In Cardiovascular Disease, Is It The Alcohol Or Polyphenols In Red Wine That Benefits Patients?
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Observational epidemiologic studies relating wine and alcohol to health all suffer from the fact that they, of necessity, compare people who prefer certain beverages, but not the beverages themselves. While there have been many intervention trials in animals, randomized trials in humans are less common...
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37 Votes
When Housing For The Homeless Allows Alcohol, Heavy Drinkers Imbibe Less
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A study of a controversial housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments found that during their first two years in the building residents cut their heavy drinking by 35 percent. For every three months during the study, participants drank an average of 8 percent fewer drinks on their heaviest drinking days...
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28 Votes
New Research Shows How Neurons Interact And Could Lead To New Treatment For Addiction
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Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors ranging from learning to drug use, a finding that might open the door to possible breakthroughs in the treatment of addiction...
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23 Votes
Mental Illness Affects 1 In 5 Americans
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In the past year, 45.9 million Americans above the age of 18 years, or 20% of 18 year-olds, experienced mental illness, according to a new national report. Mental illness amongst those aged between 18 and 25 years (29.9%) was more than double as high, compared with people aged 50 years or older (14.3%)...
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37 Votes
Comparing Alcohol Use And Other Disorders Between The United States And South Korea
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Hazardous alcohol use and depression are among the 10 leading causes of disability and premature death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Many low- to middle-income countries have begun to see a steady increase in alcohol use and have entered the early stages of a tobacco epidemic...
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28 Votes
'Bath Salts' Identified As New Source Of Flesh-Eating Infection
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A study led by Russell R. Russo, MD, a third-year Orthopaedic Surgery resident at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has identified a new source of life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis - "bath salts...
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