Ancestry of Alcohol
It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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Another Country Tries Prohibition
…efforts to provide treatment for the many victims of rampant alcoholism have been relatively rare, largely volunteer efforts funded by donations rather than much in the way of government support.
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The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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A State Considers Taxing Alcohol
One legislator worried that people who suffered from trauma and various social inequities needed alcohol as a form of self-medication.
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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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