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 Rise in alcohol abuse by teens disturbs police
YORK, Maine - Police Chief Doug Bracy said a marked increase in the abuse of ...
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Conference focuses on link between diversity and drug abuse
Acting as a seeming counterbalance to the notorious debauchery of Spring Break, today's Seventh Annual ...
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Woker dies due to alcohol-related heart problems
A 42-year-old foundry worker from Dudley who died of a heart attack after a fit ...
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Teen Alcoholism
More than three million teenagers are alcoholics. That's why MADD or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, ...
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Pickled Babies Drafted to Battle Alcoholism
LYUBERTSY, Moscow Region -- Peter the Great would have been proud.
The schoolchildren huddled together ...
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Alcohol: A clear and present danger
The three top drugs of Jefferson County are alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamine, but the No. ...
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UNDERAGE COLLEGE DRINKERS DRINK MORE
Underage college drinkers have easy access to alcohol, pay less and consume more per occasion ...
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Drugs Cocaine
Sat, 03/15/03
Cocaine is now top street drug
by Claire Connolly Doyle
DRUG squad members ...
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| ALCOHOL FACTS |
One 12-oz. beer, one 5-oz. glass of wine and one 1.5 oz. shot of liquor have the same amount of alcohol.
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One in 9 who drink will be an alcoholic. Alcohol increases the concentration of dopamine and serotonin, feel-good chemicals, it disturbs levels of glutamate, which can make people feel high, and it interferes with other chemicals that can make people tired.
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Nearly two-thirds of children under 15 who died in alcohol-related crashes between 1985 and 1996 were riding with the drinking driver. More than two-thirds of the drinking drivers were old enough to be the parent of the child who was killed, and fewer than 20% of the children killed were properly restrained at the time of the crash.
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| One half of car accidents are associated with alcohol misuse. |
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