Those Pesky Control Strategies
...(a) common tactic is to swear off alcohol entirely for the duration of the Holiday season. Then, having 'proved' to oneself (and, hopefully, to others) that you can abstain, you promptly go right back to drinking.
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A Revolutionary Plan
Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
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Russians Love Their Vodka
Public health is a pipe dream when, as happened in the 1990’s, a typical adult male Russian consumed an estimated one hundred and eighty bottles of vodka annually.
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Extreme Intox
Testing done at the hospital or emergency room would presumably be more reliable than the roadside variety, but hospital samples are often taken several hours after an accident, when the driver’s BAL has already dropped.
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How Alcohol Research Gets It Wrong
…there could have been dozens if not hundreds of articles and TV features actively promoting incorrect information. Conditioning the audience against newer and more accurate findings, if they contradicted what had become popular belief.
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Borg Invasion
Colleges, in my experience, have a weirdly ambivalent attitude towards this kind of behavior from their students.
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That Alcohol Report from Canada
…of course alcohol isn’t healthy. It’s a damn toxin, people.
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A Spike in Drinking
Those restrictions existed to inhibit people’s tendencies to abuse alcohol. In their absence, problems related to excessive drinking increased, substantially.
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Those Alcohol Death Statistics…
Of course, if we also counted the other ways that drinking can kill — via accidents (on the road, in the water, etc), suicides, falls, etc. — the 2020 total suddenly increases to 140,000 fatalities.
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MDs Confronting SUDs
I imagine it takes a special kind of practitioner to push aside the barriers in the system to get to the SUD that lies underneath, even when he or she knows it’s there.
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Warning Labels on Alcohol — Are They Worth It?
These physicians are fully aware of the opposition that such proposals draw. Not only from within the alcohol industry itself, but also from drinkers who feel strongly that how much and how often they choose to drink is nobody’s darn business but their own.
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Legal Drug Blues
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
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