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  Just Two Drinks Slow Reactions in Older People, Research Shows

  September 22, 2010 — Blood alcohol levels below the current legal limit for driving have a significant negative effect on a person's dexterity. Researchers found that just two single vodka and orange drinks were enough ... > full story
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  Benefits of Healthy Lifestyle Factors Stronger in Combination

  September 14, 2010 — Individuals with a combination of healthy lifestyle factors are at significantly lower risk of total and disease-specific mortality, according to a new ... > full story
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  Acamprosate Prevents Relapse to Drinking in Alcoholism, Review Finds

  September 7, 2010 — Acamprosate reduces the number of patients being treated for alcoholism who return to drinking, according to a new review. The drug showed moderate benefits in trials when used in addition to ... > full story
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  Decision-Making Deficits Related to Driving Under the Influence Are Often Undetected

  September 7, 2010 — Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major public health problem. New findings show that people who had relapsed to DUI have subtle deficits in their decision-making abilities. These deficits ... > full story
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  Chronic Drinking Increases Levels of Stress Hormones, Leading to Neurotoxicity

  September 7, 2010 — Alcohol consumption, withdrawal, and abstinence can all raise stress hormones in humans and animals. A review has described how stress hormones called glucocorticoids are associated with ... > full story
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  Excessive Drinking May Lead to Poor Brain Health Via Obesity

  September 7, 2010 — Alcohol abuse and dependence are often associated with a high body mass index (BMI). A new study shows that alcohol-related brain injury may result from a complicated fusion of hazardous drinking, ... > full story
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  Biochemical Pathway May Link Addiction, Compulsive Eating

  September 1, 2010 — Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a new ... > full story
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  Sensitivity to Alcohol Odors May Indicate a Genetic Predisposition to Alcohol Dependence

  September 1, 2010 — Prior research had found an association between DNA sequence variations in a gene that encodes parts of the brain's gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)-A receptors (the GABRA2 gene) and alcohol ... > full story
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  Hispanic Kids Show Greater Risk of Substance Use, Study Suggests

  September 1, 2010 — 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 ... > full story
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  School-Based Intervention Successfully Lowers Drinking Rates in at Risk Children

  August 30, 2010 — In an effort to combat these startling findings, researchers in the UK describe a successful personality-based intervention for substance abuse delivered by ... > full story

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