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‘Alcohol and sex: a cocktail for poor sexual health’ – report highlights missed opportunities within Sexual Health settings

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) warns of significant missed opportunities to tackle alcohol misuse in sexual health services – BBC report . Download Alcohol and sex: a cocktail for poor sexual health

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Binge Drinking As Contagious As The Common Cold

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Do couples influence each other’s drinking habits? Over a 28 day time frame, researchers were able to predict one partner’s binge drinking based the other partner’s binge drinking. The research studied 208 nonmarried, heterosexual dating couples in their early 20’s…

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Adolescents Influenced By Drinking Habits Of Romantic Partner’s Friends

Friday, September 30, 2011

The drinking habits of a romantic partner’s friends are more likely to impact an adolescent’s future drinking than are the behaviors of an adolescent’s own friends or significant other, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review…

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Addiction Research Centres and the Nurturing of Creativity

Monday, June 21, 2010

The aim of this paper is to present a concise account of the history, mission, structure and some recent achievements of the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Created by the US Congress 40 years ago, the NIAAA has evolved from an entity charged mainly with building a national system of alcoholism treatment services to one with responsibility for developing, nurturing and supporting the biomedical and behavioral science foundation necessary to reduce the significant domestic and global public health impact of alcohol use disorders.

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Statistics on Alcohol, England 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010
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