This month an event took place exploring 'Alcohol consumption in adolescence and early adult life: What are the consequences?' . It was organised by the Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER), a consortium of the UK’s leading birth cohort and longitudinal studies. 'High alcohol consumption – especially among young people – continues to be a major social and public health concern in the UK.
A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world’s biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem…
A number of upcoming events coming up shortly may be of interest: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Evidence, Policy and Practice This week Middlesex University host a free evening seminar: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Evidence, Policy and Practice taking place on Thursday 16 May , 5pm- 7-30pm in North London.
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Also tagged alcohol-policy, alcohol-studies, events, foetal-alcohol, forum-projects, international, madrid, north, professor, professor-james, professor-moira, professor-paul, under-control, week
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The offspring of parents who were addicted to drugs or alcohol are more likely to be depressed in adulthood, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers…
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, risk, the-current
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Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, a research affiliate of UC San Diego School of Medicine, have found a link between multivitamin use and alcohol consumption before pregnancy, uncovering a need for education about the importance of vitamin supplementation, particularly among women who drink …
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Also tagged among-women, california, children, diego, diego-department, diego-school, importance, link-between, medicine, nutrition / diet, pediatrics, the-importance
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Early, substantive dialogue between parents and their grade-school age children about the ills of tobacco and alcohol use can be more powerful in shaping teen behavior than advertising, marketing or peer pressure, a University of Texas at Arlington marketing researcher has shown…
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Also tagged age-children, alcohol-use, arlington, dialogue-between, grade, ills, marketing-or-peer, marketing-researcher, more-powerful, peer-pressure, shaping-teen, texas, tobacco
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Aerobic exercise can help prevent and even reverse some brain damage linked to high alcohol intake, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder…
the University of California, San Francisco has compiled a data that states that in the coming forty years, over eighteen million more tuberculoses cases … It is therefore very important that smokers adopt a more suitable smoking mechanism, which appar
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged advertising/promos, business (tobacco), coming, forty-years, francisco, harm-reduction, health/science, industry watch, more-suitable, the-coming, therefore-very
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Abstract Aims To investigate the mediating role of attentional bias for alcohol cues on alcohol-seeking following devaluation of alcohol.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged among-student, cues-on-alcohol, drink-pictures, mediating, more-important, operant-choice, presented, proportion, social-drinkers, the-mediating, the-proportion, variance
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