PsychCentral.com - Alcohol
Ups Aggression in Present-Focused Drinkers
Getting drunk increases aggression in people who have one
particular personality trait: the inability to consider the future consequences
of current behavior, according to new research.
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MarketWatch (USA) - Center
on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) Charts Alcohol Industry's Digital
Marketing, Questions Adequacy of Industry's Self-Regulation to Avoid Exposing
Youth to "Alcohol Experience"
The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health today released a four-part
YouTube movie ( http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnsHopkinsSPH ) charting the
alcohol industry's push into digital marketing and raising questions whether
the industry's self-regulation is adequately protecting underage youth from
exposure to the "alcohol experience" available on social marketing
platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
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Reuters (Philippines) - Philippines
to review alcohol taxes after WTO ruling
The Philippines will review taxes on foreign alcohol
products following a World Trade Organisation decision that the current system
was discriminatory and the trade minister said the government will look at how
to assist affected local distillers.
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Telegraph.co.uk (UK) - Hidden
alcohol problem among elderly
A growing number of older people are exceeding the
recommended alcohol limit, many of whom only develop harmful drinking habits
when faced with bereavement, tedium and other stresses of retirement.
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aidsmap - Alcohol
increases desire for sex without condoms: systematic review
Alcohol consumption has an impact on the intention of
individuals to have unprotected sex, according to the results of a systematic
review and meta-analysis published in the journal Addiction.
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Scottish Daily Record (Scotland) - Plan for minimum alcohol prices will be contested in court admits
Nicola Sturgeon
LEGISLATION for a minimum unit price for alcohol is
"almost certain" to meet a legal challenge, the Health Secretary has
said.
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Scotsman (Scotland) - One
in seven children ‘drinking regularly’
THE scale of Scotland’s under-age alcohol problem was laid
bare yesterday when a new survey showed that more than one third of 15
year-olds and one in seven 13 years olds admitted that they had taken a drink
in the previous week.
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Vibe Ghana (Ghana) - Chief
alarmed at rate of alcohol consumption in Builsa
The Nasuing Naab, Alex Azantilow, Regent of the Builsa
Traditional Area, on Wednesday said alcohol consumption among the people is
assuming an alarming proportion and affecting the manpower of the area.
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The Stir - Alcohol
Hits Women Way Harder Than Men
You know how your husband can drink a few beers and not even
blink, whereas you're wearing the proverbial lampshade after only a glass and a
half of wine? A new study has underscored what we all know to be true: Alcohol
affects women much more dramatically than it does men.
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The New Age Online (South Africa) - Presidential
adviser’s blood ‘free of alcohol’
“The police are in sh*t. Blood sample results are back,
alcohol in my blood: zero. I told them, banyile ngekhe ndibayeke.” So tweeted
President Jacob Zuma’s adviser, Zizi Kodwa, on Tuesday.
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Daily Mail (UK) - A
taste for champers! Cuts-hit BBC ran up a £366,000 bill on alcohol in five
years
BBC executives were last night accused of ‘living it up on
the licence fee’ after it emerged that the Corporation has spent £366,000 on
alcohol in the past five years.
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Irish Times (Ireland) - No
cheery side to excessive drinking at Christmas time
HOW OFTEN have you heard it said that drinking is part of
our culture, part of our social norm, part of our economy? There’s reality and
truth in this. You’re not a bad person if you like a drink, or for that matter
if you don’t, and the Irish pub is a venue to be preserved as part of our
natural heritage.
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Medscape - Help for
Drinking Unpopular During Minor Injury Treatment
Patients presenting at minor injuries units (MIUs) in the
United Kingdom may often fit the profile of "hazardous""
drinkers, making such settings ideal for interventions and advice to support
problem drinking, according to a pilot study published online December 21 in
Emergency Medicine Journal.
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