Thursday, January 28, 2010
Older teenagers and young adults who are out of work face poorer health and lower happiness, with one in 10 claiming that unemployment drove them to drugs or alcohol, according to new research. A Princes Trust study, based on interviews with over 2,000 unemployed 16 to 25 year olds, also found out-of-work young people were more likely to feel ashamed, rejected and unloved…
Thursday, January 28, 2010
'Alcohol and food: making the public health connections' (pdf), a literature review into the links surrounding alcohol and food, has been published by the the Liverpool John Moore's University.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Social factors have consistently been implicated as a cause of vulnerability to alcohol use and abuse. The reverse is also true, in that individuals who engage in excessive drinking may alter their social context…
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Studies of alcohol use and cognition among the elderly are rare and have mixed results.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The adverse effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on behavioral, cognitive, and social development can lead to a range of symptoms referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Attention and cognition problems seen in individuals with a history of prenatal alcohol exposure often resemble those linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)…
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Tagged adhd, adverse-effects, attention-deficit, exposure-often, exposure-on-behavioral, fasd, fetal-alcohol, prenatal-alcohol, problems-seen, spectrum-disorder, symptoms-referred
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Prenatal alcohol exposure is widely known to impair brain development in exposed offspring. Rodent studies have shown that developmental deficits in newborns related to altered levels of a brain chemical called serotonin (5-HT), leading to subsequent alterations in patterns of neonatal acute pain responses and/or hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) stress reactivity…
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Tagged alcohol-exposure, altered-levels, brain-chemical, called-serotonin, hpa, impair-brain, neonatal-acute, newborns-related, pain-responses, subsequent-alterations, widely-known
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The government's response to the consultation on the new mandatory licensing code has been published. The five conditions of the code were recently announced, including banning 'irresponsible promotions' in pubs and bars and premises being required to offer free tap water and small measures. Although the code does not place restrictions on off-sales promotions, the consultation prompted the move to allow licensing authorities to be able call for license reviews as 'interested parties' , with guidance due shortly
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged binge drinking, code, consultation, crime, from-the-ipsos, ipsos, licensing, office, policing, power, secretary
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Brief intervention (BI) is intended as an early intervention for non-treatment-seeking, non-alcohol-dependent, hazardous and harmful drinkers.
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Tagged alcohol-issues, between-factors, conditions, from-the-last, individual, more-ambitious, organizational, research-beyond, routine-health, settings, understanding
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AERC Alcohol Academy regional workshops: the North East For alcohol leads in the North East region : Next month the Alcohol Academy will be running four half-day workshops in the North East; on the 10th of february two focused workshops will explore alcohol and older people (AM) and cocaethylene (PM) issues, looking at how alcohol strategy can better respond. Please note these workshops are targeted for NE strategic alcohol leads and those with a relevant interest or expertise in the topics
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged alcohol, alcohol-academy, alcohol-concern, business, domestic-violence, night, north-east, place-violence, research, smart, space
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Conclusions: Given the absence of syringe exchange programs and the relatively high prevalence of HCV and HIV among IDUs in the Raleigh-Durham area, the limited use of pharmacies as a source of syringes among African-American IDUs in this study sample is problematic. The study findings support the need for effective multilevel interventions to increase access to clean needles in this population, as well as for policy interventions, such as legalization of SEPs and elimination of penalties for carrying syringes, to reduce harm and eliminate the health threats posed by receptive syringe sharing. (Source: International Journal of Drug Policy)
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Tagged absence, clean-needles, health, high-prevalence, increase-access, international, limited, population, raleigh, study, study-findings, threats-posed
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