Both legitimate brewers and distillers and authorities on the track of illicit alcohol from home stills will soon have a helping hand. Measurement experts have unveiled a portable device to determine the strength of alcoholic drinks quickly and easily, almost anywhere...

More than one behavior can spread simultaneously across a social network. Recent studies have shown that behaviors such as happiness, obesity, smoking and altruism are "contagious" within adult social networks. In other words, your behavior not only influences your friends, but also their friends and so on...

When you think of people suffering from social anxiety, you probably characterize them as shy, inhibitive and submissive. However, new research from psychologists Todd Kashdan and Patrick McKnight at George Mason University suggests that there is a subset of socially anxious people who act out in aggressive, risky ways - and that their behavior patterns are often misunderstood...

Spring break is here and many teenage girls may be tempted to take their first drink. The Science Inside Alcohol Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science suggests that parents, teachers and caregivers help girls delay that first drink by telling them what scientific research shows regarding their ability to handle alcohol compared to boys. There's reason to worry...

Children whose mothers abused methamphetamine (meth) during pregnancy show brain abnormalities that may be more severe than that of children exposed to alcohol prenatally, according to a study in the March 17 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. While researchers have long known that drug abuse during pregnancy can alter fetal brain development, this finding shows the potential impact of meth...

Doctors yesterday (Tuesday, 16 March 2010) welcomed the launch of the DOE consultation on a new road safety strategy. Dr Paul Darragh, Chairman of the BMA's Northern Ireland Council said, "Doctors deal with the horrific aftermath of road traffic accidents on a daily basis, and believe that a new road safety strategy is important to continue to build on what has already been achieved...

Normal individuals who scored high on a measure of impulsive/antisocial traits display a hypersensitive brain reward system, according to a brain imaging study by researchers at Vanderbilt University. The findings provide the first evidence of differences in the brain's reward system that may underlie vulnerability to what's typically referred to as psychopathy...

Discretionary detox
Indian Express
It is an understatement to say that Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal was left an unadulterated mess by his predecessors, ...

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Lemon Detox Diet - Is it safe?
3News
The Lemon Detox Diet promises to cut up to 9kg in 10 days – claims which are now being investigated by the Food Safety Authority. More than 40000 Kiwis have ...

Tiger Woods returns with his wife and children
News Trends (blog)
... turning in his home country, Sweden. After all this media storm, everything seems calm down little by little. Tiger Woods made a detox …

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Guest column: InSite's first priority is to save addicts' lives
The Province
Two weeks later she came in, used the injection room, then asked InSite's counsellor for admittance to the OnSite detox and recovery facility upstairs. ...

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Detox center will try to bill insurers
Mankato Free Press
For example, UCare, an insurance provider for some government plans, covers medical services in a hospital incurred by overdosing but not detox services, ...

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Rules to live by in your bracket pool
UW Badger Herald
Concerned you forgot to budget for $8 beers and detox fees during your spring break trip to Panama City? Want to upgrade that case of Keystone to a keg of ...

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PARKS AND RECREATION CALENDAR
The Free Lance-Star
Keep It Green Herbal Spring Detox: April 20. Registration deadline April 9. Learn several ways to detox naturally with food, herbs and simple environmental ...

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A DETOX WITH A DIFFERENCE!
Response Source (press release)
Beat your detox blues with a cup of coffee. It's low in calories and rich in antioxidants - so will actually help your detox! Coffee beans naturally contain ...

Pastew Place in dire straits
Fort McMurray Today
It was during his stay at the hospital he resolved to win his battle against his addiction, and sought help through a local detox centre. ...

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Murray From Flight Of The Conchords (And Dr. Dre) Rep For Hewlett Packard
Prefixmag
Dr. Dre still might not be done with his long-in-the-works third solo album, Detox, but dude just landed a huge contract with Hewlett Packard, ...
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Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking, but female smokers do, a new study suggests. In a study of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, researchers found that those with past alcohol-use disorders performed similarly on standard tests of cognitive function as those with no past drinking problems...

Educational leaders from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues...

Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only...