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How to Stop Binge Drinking?
Continued from What is Binge Drinking? Binge drinking is a dangerous and costly activity that doesn’t only affect young adults. While the behavior is often more subtle in older adults, it is no less...
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Graduation and Alcohol Abuse: The Influence of Parents
Graduation is an exciting time in the lives of teens as well as in the lives of their parents. Like other important rites of passage, such as going to prom or getting a driver’s license, reaching the...
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Alcohol Marketers May Ignore Important Data
Underage drinking was the focus of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence’s (NCADD) 2014 Alcohol Awareness Month, held in April. During the event, various agencies worked together to...
View ArticleMen and Heavy Drinking: The Risks
When it comes to alcohol consumption, you may not be surprised to learn that men are bigger drinkers than women. Yet, men face serious risks related to heavy drinking; risks that shouldn’t be ignored....
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Government Study Underscores the Dangers of Binge Drinking
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a first-of-its-kind report that shows how alcohol is cutting millions of American lives short by several decades. The report...
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Smartphone App Shows Promise for Reducing Binge Drinking in Youths
Binge drinking, a form of alcohol consumption geared toward the rapid attainment of legal intoxication, is a relatively common and seriously harmful behavior among older teenagers and younger adults in...
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How Does Binge Drinking Damage the Liver?
Anyone who regularly consumes alcohol in excessive amounts can eventually develop moderate, severe or even life-threatening degrees of liver damage. Researchers are well aware that long-term heavy...
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Sex Assault in College Triples Risk of Future Attack
Past sexual assaults make women on college campuses significantly more likely to suffer a future assault, according to new findings from the University of Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions...
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These Dangerous Drinking Games Are Killing Teens
Underage and young drinkers most often binge when they drink and too often do so by playing dangerous games that can lead to alcohol poisoning and even death. If you have a teen or a college student,...
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LGB Teens More Likely to Binge Drink
A 2014 study from the University of Southern California School of Social Work in cooperation with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles found that teens who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual experience...
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Do I Need to Go to Rehab for Binge Drinking?
If you read up on binge drinking, what it is, the facts, the risks and the statistics, you might be surprised to learn that you binge drink more often than you realized. Does this mean you have a...
View ArticleTeens Who Combine Alcohol With Energy Drinks at High Risk for Addiction
Recent findings from a team of American researchers point to steeply increased alcohol addiction risks in teenagers who combine alcohol with energy drinks. Teenagers who start consuming alcohol before...
View ArticlePersonality-Based Intervention Cuts Teen Binge Drinking
New findings from a team of Dutch and British researchers point to the usefulness of a personality-based alcohol intervention as a method of curbing long-term rates of binge drinking in teenagers....
View ArticleTactics to Temper Binge Drinking
Binge drinking is defined by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as having five or more drinks for men, and four or more drinks for women, within about a two-hour timeframe....
View Article5 Tips How Millennials Can Leave Their Binge Drinking College Days Behind Them
More than nine out of every 10 drinks consumed by Americans under the age of 21 is during a binge, and college students are especially likely to drink alcohol in binges. Binge drinking can lead to...
View Article5 Ways That Schools Have Successfully Reduced Binge Drinking
Binge drinking has become a serious issue that schools have had difficulty dealing with. A 2015 report by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, established that nearly 40% of college students age...
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