April 16, 2012
MONDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) — Tattoos and body piercings are increasingly seen as nothing more than a fashion trend in western societies, but a new study in France found that those with body art tended to drink more alcohol than their peers.
In the study, researchers asked nearly 3,000 French youth to take a breathalyzer test as they left bars and other drinking establishments. The readings showed that those with tattoos and body piercings had consumed more alcohol than those without the adornments.
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April 16, 2012
MONDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) — Teens undergoing treatment for alcohol or drug abuse can benefit from the 12-step program used by groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA), researchers say.
While these programs are widely available, little research has looked at how effective they are for teens.
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April 3, 2012
TUESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) — Young women who drink and drive in the United States are at increasing risk for being in a fatal accident, according to a new study.
Although men had roughly double the risk for a fatal crash as women with the same blood-alcohol level in 1996, that gender gap had closed by 2007, the researchers pointed out. And although reasons for that trend remain unclear, they said it may be because young women are taking more risks on the road.
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March 20, 2012
TUESDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) — Some people are more likely than others to have alcohol-related blackouts due to differences in the way alcohol affects their brain, according to a new study.
Researchers examined MRI brain scans conducted while 12 people with a history of alcohol-related blackouts and 12 people without a history of blackouts did a memory task. The volunteers did the memory task with and without alcohol.
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March 19, 2012
MONDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) — The emergency room costs of treating college students with injuries associated with alcohol-induced blackouts can be more than half a million dollars a year at a university with 40,000 or more students, a new study found.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison study included 954 college students who were heavy drinkers. In the 28 days before the start of the study, male participants drank an average of 81.8 drinks and female participants drank an average of 58.7 drinks.
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March 9, 2012
FRIDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) — Middle and high school students who bully their classmates are more likely to use cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana than other students, according to a new study.
Ohio State University researchers examined bullying and substance use among more than 74,000 students in all public, private and Catholic middle and high schools in Franklin County, Ohio, which includes Columbus.
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March 9, 2012
FRIDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) — The hallucinogenic drug LSD may help treat alcoholism, new research suggests.
A number of studies examining the use of LSD to treat a variety of disorders, including alcoholism, were conducted in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
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March 5, 2012
By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — The more adolescents watch movie stars sidle up to the bar on the big screen, the more alcohol they drink themselves, a new study suggests.
A cross-sectional survey of more than 16,000 teens aged 10 to 19 from six European countries — the largest study of its kind — indicated that 27 percent had consumed five or more drinks on at least one occasion.
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February 29, 2012
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 29 (HealthDay News) — Strict enforcement of underage drinking laws reduces the odds that teenagers will commit alcohol-related crimes as adults, a new study suggests.
State lawmakers have relied heavily on the enforcement of these zero-tolerance laws — known as possession of alcohol under the legal age laws — to control minors’ access to alcohol, researchers found.
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February 22, 2012
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) — News coverage of alcohol’s role in violent crime and fatal accidents may persuade the public to give stronger support to alcohol-control laws, new research suggests.
It is estimated that drinking is involved in nearly one-third of deaths from accidents and violent crime. Most news reports of such cases, however, make no mention of alcohol, according to the authors of the study, published in the March issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
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