Binge Drinking

Ohmigod! Drinkers Think Better for Longer! Hide This From Children and Adults!

Stanton Peele | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimers, Dependence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drugs, Alzheimer's, Binge Drinking, Substance Abuse, Drinking, Living News
Stanton Peele

How much is less than 1-2 drinks? Maybe put a touch of alcohol on your tongue every other day with an eye dropper -- no cheating and putting two drops while we're not looking!

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Why Harm Reduction Makes Sense: These Three Things I Know are True

Stanton Peele | Posted 12.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Youth, Underage Drinking, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Drug Use, High School Students Survey, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug Czar, American Teen, Adhd, High School, Drug Abuse, Substances, Health, Living News
Stanton Peele

How many adult substance abusers abstain? By now, we are inured to the frequent visits to rehab by problem drinking and drug abusing entertainment figures.

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Spring Break -- Just Say No.

Tracey Jackson | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Teenager, Parenting, Spoilt, Parenting Advice, Alcohol, Teens, Underaged Drinking, Natalie Holloway, Teen-Parent Conflict, Teen Drug Abuse, Teens Parents, Alcohol-Related Arrest, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Spring Break Destination, The Price of Privelige, Living News
Tracey Jackson

These kids may be on their way to college but when they board those flights to Spring Break, passport and parent's Amex in hand, they are often still seventeen-years-old.

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What To Drink In A Financial Crisis

Chris Hall | Posted 10.02.2008 | Style

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Chris Hall

It's Fall, and already there's a hint of wintry chill in the air—especially down on Wall Street, where it looks like there won't be as many wads...

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New Alcoholic Energy Drink Attacked By States

AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home

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MILWAUKEE — Twenty-five states asked beverage maker MillerCoors LLC on Wednesday to abandon plans for a new caffeine-infused alcoholic energy dr...

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Freshman: How Not to Puke In Class

Christine Whelan | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living

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Christine Whelan

As a professor of an intro sociology class, I've got 150 students who need to set their alarms and get to lecture -- sober -- each Friday morning.

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French Teens Develop Taste For Binge Drinking

The Guardian | Jon Henley | Posted 08.27.2008 | Style

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For years, the French have dismissed out-of-control teenage drinking, like hooliganism, as "a British disease". France, it was said (by the French but...

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How To Talk To Your Daughter About Drinking

Newsweek | Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living

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In the next few weeks, parents of college freshmen will be helping their kids pack up all those seemingly indispensable items for dorm life. Sending a...

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When Did Being Drunk Become a Badge of Honor?

Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

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Felicia C. Sullivan

Is it normal to openly lament if one doesn't drink for one solitary week? Do we find ourselves saying we need that glass of wine, rather than simply enjoying and savoring it?

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Are You A Functioning Alcoholic?

The Daily Telegraph | Natasha Courtenay-Smith | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Drunkorexia, Alcoholism, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Alcohol Abuse, Functioning Alcoholism, Anorexia and Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Alcoholic, Living News

If you love a good cocktail or two or maybe three after work (not that we would know anything about that), you might crack the occasional joke about b...

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Why People Drink Themselves Silly

The New York Times | Benedict Carey | Posted 03.04.2008 | Living

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Researchers have had a hard time understanding binge behavior. Until recently, their definition of binge drinking -- five drinks or more in 24 hours -...

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