Grandma too!
Source: An increasing proportion of women who are 60 years of age and older are drinking — ScienceDaily
Alcoholism
Alcohol and the Heart: Moderation Still Best – Medpage Today
Source: Alcohol and the Heart: Moderation Still Best | Medpage Today
Source: Alcohol’s Link to Cardiovascular Disease Not So Simple — Physician’s First Watch
Lifestyle Changes in Plain English:
If you don’t drink alcohol, start drinking to reduce your risk of cardiac diseases.
If you drink alcohol heavily, decrease consumption to reduce your risk of cardiac diseases.
Drinking Alcohol Linked to 7 Types of Cancer
Source: Drinking Alcohol Linked to 7 Types of Cancer
For a copy of the study go to:
Source: Alcohol consumption as a cause of cancer – Connor – 2016 – Addiction – Wiley Online Library
I am so screwed.
Drunkorexia
Source: Drunkorexia: New Trend Sweeping College Campuses
Read the comments to the article.
Priceless.
Alcohol Abuse Mortality Patterns Shift With Age
After adjustments for variables that included sex, educational status, and year of birth, alcohol use disorder was associated with a mortality hazard ratio of 5.83 (95% confidence interval, 5.76 – 5.90). However, the hazard ratio showed an inverted U-shaped curve in accordance with age.
Concurrent Cocaine, Alcohol Use Linked to Suicidality
Pot Smokers May Face 5 Times Greater Risk of Alcohol Abuse
Marijuana users also less likely to quit drinking, researchers say
Source: Pot Smokers May Face 5 Times Greater Risk of Alcohol Abuse
High Rate of Problem Drinking Reported Among Lawyers – The New York Times
Lawyers struggle with substance abuse, particularly drinking, and with depression and anxiety more commonly than some other professionals, according to a new study conducted by the American Bar Association together with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
Source: High Rate of Problem Drinking Reported Among Lawyers – The New York Times
One out of three!
The Effects of Chronic Heavy Drinking on Brain Function Are Underdiagnosed – WSJ
Also unclear is whether heavy drinking during a person’s teens and 20s, when important brain connections are still forming, has a lasting effect on brain function in later life.
Source: The Effects of Chronic Heavy Drinking on Brain Function Are Underdiagnosed – WSJ
I’m screwed.
American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR): CRU: Report: Obesity and 3 Daily Alcoholic Drinks Increase Liver Cancer Risk
The report also reaffirms the clear link between alcohol consumption and liver cancer, and for the first time quantifies the amount at which risk for liver cancer rises. “We now have a little more precision on the alcohol-liver cancer link,” said Hursting. “Getting above three drinks a day seems to dramatically impact the tumorigenic process and increase risk.”
More coffee! Less beer!
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