Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Excessive consumption of alcohol, much of it binge drinking, cost the American economy $224 billion in 2006, says a new report issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and to be published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine (November 2011 issue). The authors wrote that the toll translates into $1.90 per drink consumed…
Thursday, September 22, 2011
An excellent study among experimental mice has reported very dramatic differences between the effects of alcohol administered in moderation on a daily basis and the same total weekly amount of alcohol administered on only two days of the week: (replicating binge drinking)…
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
A new study by The Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) explores media representations of alcohol and their influence on teenage drinking.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol-concern, alcohol-reports, friends, health-literacy, influence, joseph, joseph-rowntree, liverpool-john, media, perceived, policy, research, young people
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Monday, September 12, 2011
A joint BDA (British Dietetic Association) and Alcohol Concern Cymru briefing paper on Alcohol and Calories has been released. Alcohol Concern say many of us are taking in more calories in the form of food and drink than our bodies can use – and a major part of this is increasing levels of alcohol consumption. The briefing paper states 'Amongst adults who drink, alcohol accounts for nearly 10% of their calorie intake, yet many people have little idea how many calories they are consuming in the form of alcoholic drinks.
Filed in BZP, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol-concern, bodies, briefing-paper, BZP, calories-page, form, health, little-idea, more-calories, number, resources, their-calorie, tool-calculates
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A study of over 15,000 children by Demos says parenting style is one of the most important and statistically reliable influences on whether a child will drink responsibly in adolescence and adulthood – see Demos press release and blog . The findings appear to support the recent JRF report that emphasised the importance of parents in influencing teenager's drinking, and research reviews assessing parenting interventions. The Demos press release stated: Demos found that ‘tough love’ parenting, combining consistent warmth and discipline, was the most effective parenting style to prevent unhealthy relationships with alcohol right into the mid-thirties age range.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged best-parenting, child, from-the-report, government, health, importance, influence, makes-the-child, parenting-style, policy, press-release, research, support-parents, young people
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Recent research from the drug and alcohol Effectiveness Bank : Parenting intervention has remarkable impact on teen drunkenness In this initial developer-led trial in one county in Sweden, routine parent-school meetings encouraging commitment to take a strong stand against underage drinking had a remarkable impact on adolescent drunkenness. Benefits fade after fine-tuning prevention to high risk personality traits Addressing the substance use promoting tendencies of the personality traits of London schoolchildren at particular risk of substance misuse led to persistently lower drink-related problems, but after a year drinking itself was not significantly affected. Parent-child intervention prevents heavy drinking in Dutch teens In this Dutch study, promoting parental rule setting and classroom alcohol education together nearly halved the proportion of adolescents who later went to drink heavily.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol, average-student, convincing, effectiveness, london, personality, proportion, substance, sweden, telling-college, the-personality, used-the-same
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Abstract Aims : Treatment for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be delayed significantly in HIV/HCV coinfected patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) for fear that its burden could compromise ART adherence. However, the effect such treatment has on ART adherence in observational settings remains largely unknown
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged among-the-593, art, based-on-gee, enrolment, french, hcv, hepatitis, high-adherence, mixed-logistic, patients-on-art, such-as-poor, such-treatment, the-enrolment, treatment-were
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Latest figures from a national survey of 11-15 year old pupils suggests fewer young people are drinking, and are less accepting of drunkenness.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common outcome of sexual assault among many teenage girls, but they do not necessarily cope by binge drinking, a new study finds. When they occur in these girls, PTSD symptoms, such as unwanted recollections of the assault, decrease over time…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged anxiety / stress, assault, decrease-over, new-study, PTSD, sexual-assault, stress-disorder, such-as-unwanted, teenage-girls, the-assault, unwanted-recollections
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ABSTRACT Aim To obtain information on drinking behaviour and to examine the associations between frequency of drinking, usual daily drinking quantity and binge drinking behaviour among Chinese residents aged 15–69 years. Design A multi-stage clustering sampling method was used to select a nationally representative sample and data were collected as part of the China Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance by face-to-face interview