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Mixing alcohol, energy drinks popular trend Experts say the combination is dangerous. AMBER TRAVIS Tribune Staff Writer University of Notre Dame student Belan Molina said she and her friends have heard about possible negative effects of mixing alcohol and energy drinks, but they

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July 2008 vol. 9 issue 7

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SAMHSA's Road to Recovery Update Wednesday, July 2, 2008The Road to Recovery Update keeps you informed about activities leading up to National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) in September. Feel free to forward this information to friends and colleagues, include it in newsletters or listservs, or link to it from your Web site. Today's Webcast

2008-07-06T23:27:00.004-04:00

Action News Action News Vol. XVIII No. 2 (2008) Action News is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse that addresses current events related to substance abuse. Highlights: Rethinking harm reduction: The focus of disagreement on “harm reduction” appears to be related to the type of drug use behaviour being targeted Bloggers wanted for youth strategy: CCSA

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Alcohol and fatal accidents in the United States—A time series analysis for 1950–2002 Accident Analysis & Prevention Volume 40, Issue 4, July 2008, Pages 1273-1281 To estimate the association between per capita alcohol consumption and fatal accidents in the United States and to compare the outcome with findings from Europe and Canada.A 1-L increase in per capita consumption was on average

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Acute poisoning and suicide trends in Sri Lanka: Alcohol a cause for concern Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Volume 32 Issue 3, Pages 290 - 290 No abstract Request Reprint E-Mail: j.foster@mdx.ac.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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Alcohol ad regulation could prove troublesome 06 July 2008 By Catherine O’Mahony The new self-regulatory codes on alcohol advertising sound comprehensive, but they could prove tricky to implement in some cases. In general, the new

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News Release - Treatment for Cigarette, Alcohol and Drug Use During Pregnancy Dramatically Improves Outcomes for Mom and Baby, Kaiser Permanente Study Shows Largest study to date examined nearly 50,000 pregnant women OAKLAND,

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State of Drinking: Our alcohol culture July 6, 2008 In a series of stories over the next month, Gannett Wisconsin Media will examine the ways in which alcohol is woven into the fabric of life in Wisconsin. Collectively, the articles in the series tell a bigger story — a story about the state’s drinking culture. Ten of the stories will explore issues related to each of the 10

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81% say Australians have a binge-drinking culture Heath Gilmore July 6, 2008 HEALTH authorities will call on GPs and other medical workers to ask patients about their alcohol consumption as a poll reveals that four in five of us think Australia has a binge-drinking

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Brief Motivational Interventions for Heavy College Drinkers: A Randomized Controlled Trial J Consult Clin Psychol. 2006 October; 74(5): 943–954. In this randomized controlled trial, the authors evaluated brief motivational interventions (BMIs) for at-risk college drinkers. Heavy drinking students (N = 509; 65% women, 35% men) were randomized into 1 of 6 intervention conditions formed by

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Screening for Alcohol Problems: An Epidemiological Perspective and Implications for Primary Care Mo Med. 2008; 105(1): 67–71. Excessive drinking and alcohol dependence are common and costly public health problems. Anecdotal and systematic evidence suggests that such problems are under-detected in the primary care setting, and that the latest generation of pharmacological treatments is

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Secular Trends in the Lifetime Prevalence of Alcohol Dependence in the United States: A Re-Evaluation Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008 May ; 32(5): 763–770. U.S. epidemiologic surveys have consistently found higher lifetime prevalence of alcohol dependence among younger subjects than among older groups. Because lifetime prevalence is cumulative, such patterns are suggestive of strong secular trends;

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Acute Ethanol Exposure Attenuates Pattern Recognition Receptor Activated Macrophage Functions Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. ahead of print July 2008 Both clinical and experimental data have linked acute ethanol exposure to increased susceptibility to infection as well as increased morbidity and mortality after injury. Macrophages play an integral role in the

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Psychopathology in offspring from multiplex alcohol dependence families with and without parental alcohol dependence: A prospective study during childhood and adolescence Psychiatry Research Article in Press, 1 July 2008 Multiplex families ascertained through multiple alcohol dependent individuals appear to transmit alcohol and drug use disorders at higher rates than randomly selected families

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Discriminative stimulus properties of naloxone in Long–Evans rats: assessment with the conditioned taste aversion baseline of drug discrimination learning Psychopharmacology Online First 2 Julu 2008 The characterization of the discriminative stimulus properties of naloxone has focused primarily on its actions at the mu opioid receptor, although naloxone also displays an affinity for delta

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A natural language screening measure for motivation to change Addictive Behaviors Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2008, Pages 1177-1182 Client motivation for change, a topic of high interest to addiction clinicians, is multidimensional and complex, and many different approaches to measurement have been tried. The current effort drew on psycholinguistic research on natural language that is

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Extending residential care through telephone counseling: Initial results from the Betty Ford Center Focused Continuing Care protocol Addictive Behaviors Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2008, Pages 1208-1216 There is increasing evidence that a chronic care model may be effective when treating substance use disorders. In 1996, the Betty Ford Center (BFC) began implementing a telephone-based

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Alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking to cope with social situations Addictive Behaviors Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2008, Pages 1162-1166 Repeated use of alcohol as a coping strategy to reduce anxiety or discomfort increases one's risk of developing alcohol dependence. Previous studies have found alcohol outcome expectancies (AOE) strongly predict drinking behavior, in general,

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Using the Timeline Followback to determine time windows representative of annual alcohol consumption with problem drinkers Addictive Behaviors Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2008, Pages 1123-1130 When assessing individuals with alcohol use disorders, measurement of drinking can be a resource intensive activity, particularly because many research studies report data for intervals ranging

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Drinks heads won't put warnings on booze July 4, 2008 The heads of Australia's four main alcohol manufacturing and distribution companies have rejected moves to put health warnings on liquor containers. . . . . . . Read Full Article ____________________________________________________________________

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Breast Cancer: Research Lends Biologic Plausibility to Link with Alcohol; Even Minimal Exercise May Lower Oncology Times:Volume 30(12)25 June 2008p 55-56 Laino, Charlene SAN DIEGO-The risk of hormone-receptor positive breast cancer is increased by as little as a drink or two a day, according to the largest study to look at the association between the two to date. A second study shows that

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Kempsey reintroduces alcohol-free zones July 2, 2008 Alcohol-free zones have been reintroduced in Kempsey this week and they have the full support of local police. . . . . . . Read Full Article ___________________________________________________________________

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Sparks remains as Miller sticks with caffeinated beer By Neil Merrett01-Jul-2008 - The Miller Brewing Company will not be following in the footsteps of rivals by reformulating its caffeinated alcohol brands in the US, claiming the products are fully compliant with regulatory and labelling guidelines in the country. . . . . . .Read Full Article__________________________________________________

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Acute mild footshock alters ethanol drinking and plasma corticosterone levels in C57BL/6J male mice, but not DBA/2J or A/J male mice Alcohol Article in Press 2 July 2008 Stress is an often-reported cause for alcohol consumption in humans. Acute intermittent footshock is a frequently used paradigm to produce stress in laboratory animals including mice. The effect produced by intermittent