Science a Gogo -
Alcohol rewires brain for PTSD
Heavy drinking
appears to impair the brain's ability to recover from trauma and may
put people at greater risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
say scientists from the University of North Carolina and the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
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BBC News
(Scotland) - NHS report says Scots are drinking less alcohol
People in Scotland
are drinking less alcohol, according to an NHS report analysing
retail sales.
Medical News Today
- Alcohol-Related Liver Diseases Detected With Blood Test
A color-coded
"traffic light" blood test can diagnose liver cirrhosis and
fibrosis in heavy alcohol drinkers much more easily and accurately
than present diagnostic approaches, researchers from the University
of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital, England, reported in
the British Journal of General Practice.
GoodTherapy.org -
Alcohol Use and Conduct Disorder in Adolescence Predicts
Antisocial Behavior
Adult antisocial
behavior (ASB) has been studied extensively in recent years.
Determining the factors that contribute to and predict the onset of
ASB is essential in order to identify those most at risk. In existing
research, links between ASB and adolescent and childhood conduct
disorder (CD) have been found.
Technorati - A
Single Sip of Alcohol Could put Children at Risk of Alcoholism
Parents often
think that letting their children have a sip of alcohol at home is a
safe way to promote responsible drinking but this could put their
child at future risk.
Counsel & Heal
- Alcohol Permanently Damages Blood Stem Cells
A new study by
researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of
Molecular Biology claims that stem cells in the body's 'blood cell
factory' -the bone marrow - are extremely sensitive to the main
byproduct of alcohol, which causes a permanent damage to their DNA.
Toronto Star
(Canada) - Turning around Ontario lives hurt by fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder is the most common of developmental disabilities,
affecting an estimated one in 100 Canadians or 130,000 Ontarians. But
this province lags far behind the rest of the country in addressing
this complex yet preventable disability, and is unnecessarily
relegating far too many people to the margins of society.
BBC News (UK) -
MPs demand action on lost alcohol taxation
The UK's tax
authorities should prosecute more people for alcohol smuggling, a
committee of MPs says. The Public Accounts Committee says there were
no more than six successful prosecutions each year, in the four years
to 2009-10.
Donegal Democrat
(Ireland) - ‘The more drink is available,
the more people
will drink’ - Dr Gerry Lane, consultant
Dr Gerry Lane, a
consultant in emergency medicine at Letterkenny General Hospital, is
widely known and respected for his unflinching honesty in a national
road safety campaign on television. This week, he was equally
hard-hitting about the effects of excess drink on people of all ages
in Donegal.
New Zealand Herald
(New Zealand) - Alcohol reformers keep pushing
MPs and lobby
groups say once-in-a-generation alcohol reforms must be salvaged
after one of the core measures was defeated in Parliament.
Voxy (New Zealand)
- National MP admits Govt looking after alcohol industry
Nikki Kaye,
National MP for Auckland Central, speaking on national television
this morning (TV1 Breakfast) admitted that the government has the
well-being of the alcohol industry very much in mind as it manages
the current alcohol reform process.
British Journal of
Psychiatry (UK) - The price of a drink: the potential of alcohol
minimum unit pricing as a public health measure in the UK
The UK has seen a
dramatic increase in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm
over the past 30 years.
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