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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 |
Alcoholic hepatitis can cause death if drinking continues. If drinking stops, the condition may be reversible.
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Eliminating alcohol from the body is a long process. About 90 percent must be metabolized through the liver. The remaining 10 percent is eliminated through the lungs and urine. It takes about one hour to eliminate one-half ounce of alcohol.
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From 1993 to 1999, national alcohol treatment admission rates declined by 24 percent. Alcohol admissions included admissions for both abuse of alcohol alone and admissions for the primary abuse of alcohol with secondary abuse of another drug.
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| People who have been drinking are at greater risk of being the victim of violent crime, and are also more likely to be involved in accidents, fires and to engage in self-harm. |
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