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Parents Who Use Illegal Drugs, Abuse Alcohol & Smoke Endanger Half The Nation's Children
Parents who use illegal drugs, abuse alcohol and use tobacco put half the nation's children -- more than 35 million of them -- at greater risk of substance abuse and of physical and mental illnesses.

Learning to spot warning signs of drug abuse aids in the battle
A major way to fight drug abuse is to detect it. At the March meet-ing of God's Truth Conquers Addiction, the drug abuse aware-ness group that gathers monthly in Monett, a program used by a public utility was ...

PA Community Prevention Collabrative
In 2001, Pennsylvania received a three-year State Incentive Grant totaling $9,000,000 from the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to participate in a national Youth Substance Abuse Initiative to ...


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Health organizations prepare for Alcohol Screening Day
According to health experts, 14 million American adults suffer from alcohol abuse or alcoholism, and more than 100,000 people die from alcohol-related diseases and injuries each year.

Billy Joel enters rehab for alcohol abuse
Billy Joel has checked into an undisclosed rehabilitation center "for treatment of alcohol abuse," his spokeswoman said.

Injectable Naltrexone Called Effective
A monthly injection of the drug naltrexone appears to be effective in treating alcoholism.

Your Clumsy Kid Is Going To Be A Lush!
Well since I have superb balance (I walked very early, taught myself to ride a unicycle, wear high heels for fun, etc) this might explain my high alcohol tolerance:

Developmental problems in childhood in an area of the brain responsible for coordination may be linked to alcoholism in adulthood, new research suggests.

Newborns with poor muscle tone and toddlers who took longer than normal to sit or learn to walk were at increased risk for alcoholism at 30 years of age, investigators at the University of Kansas Medical Center found.

"The key finding is that infants who exhibit a subtle delay in motor coordination appear to be at increased risk for developing alcoholism later in life," researcher Barry Liskow, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said in a prepared statement.

The authors stressed, however, that developmental delays certainly don't mean a child is destined to become alcoholic later in adulthood.

Reporting in the March issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, the Kansas team analyzed data on 241 adults who, as babies, were part of a Danish study conducted from 1959 to 1961.

This new study concluded that deficits in muscle tone five days after birth, along with infants' delays in learning to sit and in learning to walk, were significant predictors of alcohol dependence at age 30.

The cerebellum -- an area of the brain responsible for motor skills and coordination -- may be the factor linking childhood movement difficulties and adult alcoholism, the researchers said.

"Combined with suggestions that the cerebellum may be involved in the coordination of emotional and cognitive functioning as well as motor functions, this finding opens the door for exploring whether development delays or other insults to the cerebellum are related to the development of alcoholism," Liskow said.

"The motor coordination deficits that we found were minor deficits," study co-author Ann Manzardo, a research assistant professor, stressed in a prepared statement.

"The subjects were not disabled or impaired in any way -- they were just consistently lagging in several important benchmarks. Since the study involved primarily high-risk men, we can't be certain how well this will translate to the normal population," she added.

The binge-drinking kids of North Wales
admitted alcohol abuse was not uncommon, but could have tragic consequences

Study Sees Rise in Alcohol Deaths, DUI in College
Alcohol-related injury deaths and drunk driving both increased among college students over the past few years, according to a new report from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.