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alcohol abuse stories: 50 news summaries

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Most Boozers Sober Up Without AA

70% moderate the drinking on their own, 1% are true alcoholics

Nov 16, 09 8:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Most people who hit the bottle too heavily lay off the booze long before they ever have to stand up and say, "My name is Bill W and I'm an alcoholic." Shooting down conventional wisdom that climbing up on the wagon and staying there was the only way... More »

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alcoholism • alcohol abuse • Alcoholics Anonymous • alcoholic

ANALYSIS

Army's Stress Most Obvious
at Fort Hood

Repeat deployments prompt record levels of suicide, depression

Nov 6, 09 6:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Fort Hood has had more suicides than any other US Army facility since the start of the Iraq war, and while Nidal Hasan, the man officials say is responsible for yesterday's massacre, likely had unique motivations, he was perhaps only the most troubled member of a volunteer force buckling under... More »

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suicide • alcohol abuse • US Army • PTSD • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • American soldiers • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

 Popular Kids Become Healthier Adults

Classroom outcasts much likelier to suffer chronic health problems as adults

Sep 29, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Children with few friends at school are much more likely to suffer poor health as adults, according to a new study. Swedish researchers asked 6th graders in 1966 which children they preferred to work with at school, then matched that data with hospital admissions between 1973 and 2003. They found... More »

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heart disease • children • alcohol abuse • school • schoolchildren

 Ankle Monitors 
 Get a Grip on 
 Drunk Drivers 

New technology lets cash-strapped PDs free up jail space

Sep 25, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the fight against drunk driving, cash-strapped municipalities are embracing cheaper penalties than the traditional—and expensive—jailhouse, and the ankle monitor has a high-tech addition: an alcohol sensor. Repeat offenders can skip probation and even rehab if they submit to sweat-analyzing remote surveillance. “We are at a point... More »

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rehab • alcohol abuse • probation • rehabilitation • house arrest • criminal charges • ankle • electronic monitoring • SCRAM

Jade Goody's Widower Charged With Rape

Tweed has admitted alcohol abuse in dealing with reality star's death

Sep 5, 09 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jack Tweed, the troubled widower of late UK reality star Jade Goody, has been charged with raping a 19-year-old woman, the Daily Mail reports. Officers arrested the 22-year-old and a friend after the woman told police the men assaulted her in a bedroom at Tweed’s rented home. Tweed, who... More »

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United Kingdom • rape • alcohol abuse • arrest • Jade Goody • Jack Tweed

Alcoholics Are Less Able to Read Your Face

Sensitivity is lower even when drinkers are sober for years: study

Aug 17, 09 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Long-term alcoholics have a diminished ability to sense others’ emotions, even if they have been sober for years, the Chicago Tribune reports. A new study used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to look at the brain activity of abstinent alcoholics and non-alcoholics while they looked at pictures of faces that... More »

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alcohol • alcoholism • alcohol abuse • neuroscience • empathy • fMRI • hippocampus • amygdala • expressions • emotional intelligence

(Newser) - Stefanie Wilder-Taylor made a name for herself penning light-hearted accounts of life as a hard-drinking mom, so her blog readers were shocked when she announced that she was laying off the sauce, the New York Times reports. Drinking-while-parenting “was a way to express that we’re still fun people,... More »

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motherhood • alcohol • alcoholism • mothers • alcohol abuse • drinking • blogger • writers • mother

Drug Curbs Alcoholism—but Should Addicts Drink at All?

With drug, alcoholics still drink; abstinence is traditional model

Jul 29, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - More and more doctors are prescribing the anti-craving drug baclofen to alcoholics, and patients describe a “switch” that suddenly allows them to resist temptation—even as they keep drinking in moderation, Time reports. While some argue this can reduce harm—one drink is better than 10—the approach is... More »

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alcohol • alcoholism • alcohol abuse • addiction • Alcoholics Anonymous • baclofen • cravings

(Newser) - A psychiatrist who was part of a presidential committee that recommended raising the US drinking age to 21 now calls those efforts “the single most regrettable decision,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Morris Chafetz, in an opinion piece being shopped for publication, says seeing the “collateral, off-road... More »

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alcohol • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • Ronald Reagan • drinking age • date rape • Morris Chafetz

 Drowning in Alcohol, 
 Aborigines Split 
 Over Booze Ban 

Some see restrictions as infringement on hard-won rights

Jul 5, 09 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the Australian government cracks down on alcohol in Aboriginal areas, some communities are taking matters into their own hands, instituting local restrictions on booze, the New York Times reports. Some indigenous leaders see alcohol as a blight on their communities, fueling child abuse and domestic violence. But others see... More »

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Australia • alcohol • alcoholism • Aborigines • alcohol abuse • domestic violence • restrictions

(Newser) - It's time to stop treating underage drinking like a joke—5,000 deaths and 100,000 sexual assaults a year should make that clear—and give states the freedom to get creative with their laws, writes John McCardell in the Atlantic. The federal age-21 restriction only pushes the drinking underground... More »

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parenting • alcohol • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • drunk driving • teenage drivers • teenager • drinking age

 UK Weighs Limits 
 on 'Binge Bars' 

Brown calls time on drink promotions in effort to reduce rowdiness

May 13, 09 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - British pubs that offer "all you can drink" promotions may soon find themselves banned from serving alcohol under tough new measures to curb binge drinking, the Independent reports. Gordon Brown declined to introduce a minimum drink price as some activists had called for, but the PM promised that the... More »

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alcohol • Gordon Brown • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • Britain • bars

GLOSSIES

 Kennedy Drinking Again: Book 

Family fighting over Lion's legacy

May 5, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy’s grim health prognosis has driven him to drink, according to Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died, a new book from longtime Kennedy scribe Edward Klein. In an excerpt in Vanity Fair, Klein says Kennedy’s wife moved him to Florida after the seizure because his Hyannis... More »

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alcohol • Ted Kennedy • Joe Kennedy • alcohol abuse • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • political dynasty • Victoria Reggie Kennedy

Japanese Boy Band Star Found Drunk, Naked, Screaming

Incident in public park cost singer ad deals

Apr 23, 09 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - A member of SMAP, Japan’s most famous boy band, was arrested today after he was found naked, drunk and screaming in a public park at 3am, Asahi Shimbun reports. Tsuoyoshi Kusanagi, 34, reportedly screamed “What’s wrong with being naked?” at an officer while being removed. He had... More »

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alcohol • Japan • alcohol abuse • boy bands • drunk • drunkenness • Tsuoyoshi Kusanagi

Newman More Hustler Than Mr. Nice Guy: Bio

Book claims 'faithful' star was boozing philanderer

Apr 18, 09 2:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paul Newman’s own secret recipe was a steady diet of booze and womanizing, according to a biography of the late star obtained by the New York Post. In Paul Newman: A Life, slated to come out next month, author Shawn Levy describes the Oscar winner as a functioning alcoholic... More »

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Hollywood • alcohol abuse • biography • infidelity • Paul Newman • womanizer

Boozing Editor
Loves New Life on the Wagon

Elle fashionista goes weeks without a drop: 'I love not drinking'

Apr 8, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - British Elle fashion editor Stacey Duguid knew her drinking was getting to be a problem: “As well as possible health issues, the days I've spent hungover have been some of the most horrific of my life,” she writes in the Daily Mail. But it was a mammoth task.... More »

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fashion • alcohol • wine • alcohol abuse • editor • psychotherapy • Elle Magazine • Stacey Duguid

 LiLo Blames 
 Warrant on 
 Paparazzi 


Lawyer going alone to clear up warrant 'misunderstanding'

Mar 16, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sorry, LiLo stalkers: Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer is meeting with a judge today, but “Lindsay won’t be in court with me,” he tells the New York Daily News, adding that her arrest warrant stemmed from a “misunderstanding which I am confident I can clear up.”... More »

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alcohol • celebrity trials • Lindsay Lohan • alcohol abuse • drunk driving • celebrity • lawyer • warrant • arrest warrant

Brown Kills UK
Plan to Double Alcohol Prices

Britain's top doc called
for raising costs to combat binge drinking

Mar 16, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown today rejected controversial proposals from Britain’s top medical officer to establish minimum prices for alcohol, the Guardian reports. The PM said he would protect the “sensible majority of moderate drinkers” after a report advised doubling prices to combat binge drinking. In Scotland, however, the regional government... More »

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alcohol • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • drinking

Brits' Drinking Solution: Double Booze Prices

Top doc says price
hike will curb rising alcoholism

Mar 15, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's top medical officer wants to curb binge drinking by hitting Britons in the wallet, the Telegraph reports. Sir Liam Donaldson will tomorrow recommend a government-imposed price hike of 50 pence—about 70 cents—per unit of alcohol. The move would also double the price of many supermarket beers. "... More »

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alcohol • alcoholism • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • drinking • doctor • Britain • price control

 I'm Not Out of Control: 
 Winehouse 

Singer says bad behavior is her idea of fun

Jan 16, 09 1:43 PM CST
(Newser) - Despite photos and reports that suggest otherwise, Amy Winehouse says she isn’t a drunken mess—wreaking havoc at a Caribbean resort is her idea of a good time. “I’m not out of control,” she tells the Daily Mail. “Yes, I’ve had a few drinks,... More »

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alcohol abuse • behavior • drinking • vacation • musician • St. Lucia • Amy Winehouse • singer • resorts • public drinking

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