If your parents struggle with alcohol or drug addiction, there’s a good chance your grandparents did too. New data from the organization TUBA shows that addiction problems are passed down through generations.
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PsyPost - Prenatal hormone exposure may
shape alcohol drinking habits, new research suggests
A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology suggests
that the length of your fingers—specifically the ratio between your index and
ring fingers—might predict how much alcohol you consume.
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Neuroscience News - Heavy Alcohol Use
Causes Long-Term Brain Damage
For the first time, scientists have shown how heavy alcohol use leads to
long-term cognitive impairments by damaging brain circuits responsible for
decision-making. In a rat model, animals exposed to high alcohol levels
performed significantly worse on a complex, shifting-reward task, even after
nearly three months of sobriety.
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Lincolnshire County Council (UK) - Support
for those affected by others' drug and alcohol use
Lincolnshire County Council has appointed Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership
to deliver its support service for friends and family members affected by
someone else’s drug or alcohol use.
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SWI swissinfo.ch (Switzerland) - Active
seniors consume more alcohol, study finds
People over 60 who are physically active drink more alcohol than so-called
‘couch potatoes’ who prefer a more sedentary lifestyle.
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Johns Hopkins University - Study reveals
how alcohol abuse damages cognition
For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol
use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical
for decision-making.
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Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia) - Action needed
to address rising alcohol consumption among Cambodian youth
A new policy white paper released yesterday, March 31, by the Southeast
Asia Public Policy Institute (SEAPPI) and the Asian Vision Institute (AVI) is
sounding the alarm on the concerning rates of alcohol consumption among young
people in Cambodia.
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News-Medical - Smartwatches provide a more
accurate picture of people's daily drinking habits than current methods
Alcohol harm costs NHS England £3.5 billion annually, with 70 people dying
every day from alcohol-related causes in the UK. According to new University of
Bristol-led research smartwatches could provide a more accurate picture of
people's daily drinking habits than current methods.
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Drug & Alcohol Testing Association of
Canada (DATAC) - Allowing teens to drink at home can lead to heavier use
later: Study
According to the results of a new study, parents allowing adolescents to
consume alcoholic drinks — or even just letting them taste alcohol — can lead
to heavier drinking and alcohol-related issues later in life.
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Nuffield Trust (England) - Deaths from
drinking are at a record high: does England need a new alcohol strategy?
Bea Taylor looks at the latest trends in drinking and alcohol-related harm,
and explores whether the last unified national alcohol strategy needs to be
updated.
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IAS Blog - Policies that single out
pregnant people’s drinking aren’t working, but there are other policies that
appear to help
Most states in the United States have had one or more pregnancy-specific
alcohol policies (government policies that single-out pregnant people’s alcohol
consumption) for decades. But, until
recently, there has been very little research about the effects of these
policies.
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IAS Blog - Gone but not forgotten: Why was
the Northern Territory’s Minimum Unit Price removed?
Australia’s Northern Territory has removed its Minimum Unit Price (MUP) for
alcohol as of the first of March. The removal of the MUP was an election
promise of the incoming Country Liberal Party (CLP), who had opposed the
introduction of the policy in 2018 by the Territory Labor Party.
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NordAN (Finland) - EHYT's corrective
package for the government’s mid-term review: four observations on Prime
Minister Orpo’s substance use and gambling policy
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government will hold its mid-term review in
April 2025. From the perspective of preventive substance work, the government’s
mid-term balance sheet is far from flattering.
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Alcohol Research Group (USA) - New Study
Reveals Why Alcohol Use Increased During the Pandemic
A new study published today in PLOS One uncovers key social and
environmental factors that drove a significant rise in alcohol consumption
during COVID-19. Researchers from the Alcohol Research Group, a program of the
Public Health Institute, found that increased alcohol availability and
accessibility, and drinking as a coping mechanism, played a major role in
shaping drinking behaviors during the pandemic.
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Annenberg Public Policy Center (USA) - Awareness
Grows of Cancer Risk From Alcohol Consumption
Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and an elevated risk
of cancer has grown since last fall, with more than half of Americans now
saying that regularly consuming alcohol increases your chances of later
developing cancer, according to a survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
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