Research shows that the earlier the age at which youth take their first alcoholic drink, the greater the risk of developing alcohol problems. Thus, age at first drink (AFD) is generally considered a powerful predictor of progression to alcohol-related harm…
Long after a hangover, a night of bad decisions might take a bigger toll on the body than previously understood.
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Also tagged alcoholic-liver, alcoholism, bad-decisions, bigger-toll, current, experimental, health, might-take, missouri, other-health, the-current, university
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A new study has revealed that alcohol consumption doesn’t increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer, and that moderate alcohol consumption may actually modestly lower the risk of early death among breast cancer survivors at risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)…
Abstract Aim To examine the relationship between a childhood diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with or without oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)/conduct disorder (CD) and the development of later alcohol/drug use disorder (psychoactive substance use disorder (PSUD)) and nicotine dependence in a large European sample of ADHD probands, their siblings and healthy control subjects. Participants, DesignSetting Subjects (n=1017) were participants in the Belgian, Dutch and German part of the International Multicenter ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) study.
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Also tagged abuse-screening, adhd, children, comorbidity, design, development, disorder, genetics, german, image, international, relationship, substance-use
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Aim To investigate whether varenicline use was associated with increased risk of psychiatric adverse events, compared with another drug used for smoking cessation, bupropion. Design, Settingand Participants We conducted a registry-based cohort study in Denmark, 2007-2010, comparing new users of varenicline and bupropion in unmatched and 1:1 propensity score-matched analyses. Measurements Using Cox regression, we estimated the hazard ratio (HR) of any psychiatric adverse event (emergency department visit or inpatient admission with a psychiatric diagnosis) within 30 days following treatment initiation.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The most popular illegal drug, marijuana, has been found to double the risk of stroke among young adults, according to findings revealed at The American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2013…
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Chronic drinking is known to have detrimental health effects such as cardiac and liver problems, cognitive impairments, and brain damage. Binge drinking in particular is known to increase the risk of developing dementia and/or brain damage, yet little is known about an exact threshold for the damaging effects of alcohol…
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Also tagged brain-damage, cognitive-impairments, damaging, damaging-effects, developing-dementia, exact-threshold, health-effects, increase-the-risk, liver-problems, such-as-cardiac, yet-little
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Adolescence is often a time of novelty seeking and risk taking, including the initiation of drinking. While heavy drinking that begins in adolescence can lead to problematic alcohol use later in life, other risk factors are also involved in trajectories of alcohol use that may develop…
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Two articles published in F1000 Medicine Reports take a collaborative approach to argue the case for and against the link between cannabis use and psychotic illness. The scientific community have long debated the causal relationship between cannabis use and the risk factor for psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia…
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Also tagged against-the-link, argue-the-case, articles-published, case, causal, debated-the-causal, reports, such-as-schizophrenia, the-link, the-risk
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
It is a myth that snus (Swedish snuff) users today have fewer dental caries. On the contrary, some types of nicotine-free snus contain both carbohydrates and starch that increase the risk of cavities