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Health & Wellness News tagged with alcohol

Should Diabetes Consume Alcohol?
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, diabetes, diabetic, alcohol, diet, healthcare, illness, news )

FatJ
- 2 hours ago - diabeticdietfordiabetes.com
Alcohol can make blood glucose too high or too low. Moderate amount of alcohol can cause blood sugar to rise but excess alcohol can actually decrease our blood sugar level even to an unsafe level.
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Two Acres of Hope for Recovering Addicts
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, addictions, drugs, alcohol, disease, illness, homeless, relapses, Body-Mind-Spirit, prevention, treatment, recovery )

Dee
- 103 days ago - nytimes.com
Seeds of Recovery.. Former drug addicts rehabilitate through farming on a tiny upstate farm in Garrison, N.Y.
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Synthetic Derivative Of Kudzu Vine Can Reduce Drinking And Prevent Relapse
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, disease, addiction, alcohol, Relapse, alcoholism, treatment, AlternativeMed, medicine, prevention, research, study, science )

Dee
- 104 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2009) -- Kudzu and its extracts and flowers have been used in traditional Chinese folk medicine to treat alcoholism for about 1,000 years. Kudzu contains daidzin, an anti-drinking substance.
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Milan to Enforce Teen Drink Ban
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, Alcohol, addictions, underage drinking, adolescents, prevention, risks, warning, disease )

Dee
- 129 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Milan has banned the consumption and sale of alcohol to young teenagers in an effort to curb binge-drinking.
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Set Of Genes Contributes To Stress; Possible Drug-Taking Behavior Discovered
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, drugs, alcohol, consumption, abuse, addictions, prevention, research, risks, study, treatment, protection, disease )

Dee
- 132 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (July 17, 2009)-A Baylor University researcher has found a set of genes that modulates stress responses that could cause some people to take drugs, specifically alcohol consumption.
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Problem Drinking 'Hits Over-60s'
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, drinking, Elderly, alcohol, medicine, drug interactions, addiction, depression, stress, warning, risks, prevention, Body-Mind-Spirit, study )

Dee
- 133 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Alcohol misuse in people aged over 60 is becoming a widespread problem, research suggests.
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Intervening Against An Adult's Will Is Complicated, Painful
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, drugs, alcohol, addictions, family, intervention, treatment, prevention, protection, disease, risks )

Dee
- 136 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- Mike Loverde was 29 when his family intervened in his addiction to prescription painkillers. He remembers his parents driving him from Chicago, Illinois, to a rehab center in rural Indiana. He was crying because he wanted to get high.
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Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Addiction, brain, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, research, study, prevention, treatment )

Dee
- 180 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2009)-When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
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Helping Doctors Ask About Drug, Alcohol Problems
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, disease, drugs, alcohol, addictions, prevention, treatment, illness, healthcare, death, Body-Mind-Spirit, warning )

Dee
- 204 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - If more doctors started asking, would more drug and alcohol abusers 'fess up so they could get help? It's a huge irony of health care:
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Millions of Kids Live With Substance-Abusing Parents
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Substance abuse, drugs, ALCOHOL, children, family, risks, protection )

Dee
- 209 days ago - news.yahoo.com
THURSDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) Almost 12 percent of children in the United States live with a parent who has a substance abuse problem, says a federal government study released this week.Living in this type of home environment can cause long-lasti
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Drinking in the Economy Has a No-Win Twist
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, addictions, alcohol, stress, economy, treatment, prevention, Body-Mind-Spirit )

Dee
- 225 days ago - abcnews.go.com
To hit "rock bottom," is a phrase commonly used in Alcoholics Anonymous. It describes a loss so extraordinary, so painful, that it becomes a turning point.
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Alcohol 'Quickly' Cuts Heart Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, heart risk, alcohol )

Ingrid
- 627 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Middle-aged non-drinkers can quickly reduce their risk of heart disease by introducing a daily tipple to their diet, South Carolina researchers say.
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Too Tipsy to Drive? Get Towed for Free Over the Holidays
Health & Wellness  (tags: society, safety, health, alcohol, drugs )


- 716 days ago - content.hamptonroads.com
AAA Tidewater Virginia will give as many drunken drivers as it can a free tow and ride home from 9 p.m. Friday through 6 a.m. New Year's Day.
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Addicts Helped By Ancient Arts
Health & Wellness  (tags: addiction, alcohol, AlternativeMed, drugs, treatment )

Dagmar
- 717 days ago - buddhistchannel.tv
A PIONEERING scheme to tackle alcoholism and drug addiction in Islington using 1,000-year-old Buddhist meditation techniques has been hailed as a success.
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A Drink a Day for Health? Forget It, Research Says
Health & Wellness  (tags: alcohol, wine, cancer, risk, health, humans )

Eduardo
- 764 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Drinking alcoholic beverages can cause cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus and liver. The International Agency for Research on Cancer this year added breast and colon cancer to the list of malignancies known to be fostered by alcohol.
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