Saturday, July 16th, 2011 at
10:01 am
Binge drinking higher in Butler County than nation
Butler County adult drinkers may impress their friends with how many they can throw back, but the findings from a recent survey suggests many of them may have a binge-drinking problem.More than 1 in 5 Butler County adults, or 23 percent, reported binge drinking in the month before the 2010 Greater Cincinnati Community Health Status survey was conducted by the Health Foundation. That’s higher …
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Research shows binge drinking is worse for girls
16 July 2011 Binge drinking is worse for teenage girls than for boys, according to new research.
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 at
8:01 pm
College drinkers with blackouts may face higher risk of alcohol-related injuries
“I don’t remember how I got home from the party.” This could be a text from last night to one hard-partying college student from another.
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California Assembly bans caffeine-laced beer drinks
SACRAMENTO — The California Assembly moved Monday to prohibit the production and sale of beer laced with caffeine and join other states concerned the beverages are aimed at young people and make it easy to drink too much.
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Monday, November 8th, 2010 at
12:57 am
HIGHER GROUND: You can break free
The woman before me in a checkout line was returning a carton of cigarettes. Were they the wrong brand? No, she had quit smoking.
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010 at
4:57 am
Merck’s Investigational Medicine Boceprevir Achieved Significantly Higher SVR Rates In Treatment-Failure and Treatment …
Merck reported today that final results from two pivotal Phase III studies of boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, demonstrated significantly higher sustained virologic response (SVR) 1 rates in adult patients who previously failed treatment (treatment-failure; HCV RESPOND-2) and in adult patients who were new to treatment (treatment-naïve; HCV SPRINT-2) for …
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at
6:35 pm
Religious Americans Enjoy Higher Wellbeing
Very religious Americans have higher wellbeing than those who are moderately religious or not religious at all, boosted by their healthier behaviors, higher life evaluation, better work orientations, and higher emotional wellbeing.
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at
8:57 pm
Brain’s Pleasure Chemical May Explain Men’s Higher Alcoholism Rate
Drinking-related dopamine release is greater in males, study finds.
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at
10:57 am
Research Reveals Higher Rates Of Substance Use By Hispanic Students
Hispanic middle school students may be more likely to smoke, drink or use marijuana than their peers of other races and ethnicities, whereas Asian students seem to have the lowest risk, according to new research in the September issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. The study, of 5,500 seventh- and eighth-graders at 16 California schools, found that young Hispanic adolescents …
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Monday, August 9th, 2010 at
5:39 pm
Drunks, Nerdlingers Find Correct Colleges [Higher Learning]
# higherlearning The Princeton Review’s newest college rankings declare that the University of Georgia is the nation’s top party school, while Brigham Young University is the “most sober” school. Interestingly, both suck big time. [ Bloomberg . Pic via ] More »
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Monday, May 31st, 2010 at
5:57 am
In Deprived Areas Of England And Wales Alcohol-Related Death Rates Much Higher
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have found that there are substantially increased death rates from alcohol-related diseases in socioeconomically deprived areas of England and Wales. The findings, which were published in the journal BMC Public Health, found that the mortality rates of men and women in the most deprived areas of England and Wales were over four times the rates in less …
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at
5:58 am
Dedicate: Revenue from higher alcohol sin tax must help bolster treatment
The usual rationale for increasing the “sin” tax on products such as tobacco and alcohol is twofold: to raise more money for the government; and to get more people to quit using the product, or at least reduce the amount of the product they use.
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at
9:11 am
Higher doses of statin may lead to fatal kidney failure
Higher doses of cholesterol lowering drug Zocor, sold generically as simvastatin, may increase risk of a condition which can lead to fatal kidney failure, a drug watchdog has warned.
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at
11:57 am
Study Of Combined Depression-Alcoholism Treatment Shows Higher Abstinence Rate
Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only…
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at
3:46 am
Street Edges Higher Wednesday
Equities make narrow gains early, despite disappointing reading on wholesale inventories.
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at
5:47 am
Weekend Linky Dinks- Higher We Go as the Financials Break Out
? ? ? It was a sweet week for the bulls. We saw takeovers in Millipore (nyse:?
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
9:59 am
For some, AA’s ‘higher power’ is step in the wrong direction
ST. LOUIS — By the end of January, plenty of New Year’s resolutions have been broken.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
9:58 am
Higher Education Might Not See Budget Cuts
Stumbo says House leaders now are hoping to restore money for higher education in both years.
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