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News/Information/Articles
 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 |
About 10 to 20 percent of heavy drinkers develop alcoholic cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver.
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Some drinkers develop alcoholic hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver, as a result of heavy drinking over a long period of time. Its symptoms include fever, jaundice (abnormal yellowing of the skin, eyeballs, and urine), and abdominal pain.
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Pregnant women who drink risk having babies with fetal alcohol syndrome.
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| More than 1 in 10 Americans aged 12 or older in 2001 (25.1 million persons) drove under the influence of alcohol at least once in the 12 months prior to the interview. Between 2000 and 2001, the rate of driving under the influence of alcohol increased from 10.0 to 11.1 percent. Among young adults aged 18 to 25 years, 22.8 percent drove under the influence of alcohol. |
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Teen Alcoholism
More than three million teenagers are alcoholics. That's why MADD or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Chevrolet and Carstar are targeting seventh and eighth graders at Edwardsville Middle School. Students got a lesson on the dangers of drinking and driving Monday as part of National Alcohol Awareness Month.
The program is called "Fake ID." Bruce Helfrich is a MADD Field Representative Manager. He says, "this program is about personal identity and about young as they're growing up. How they make decisions based on the influence of style, media, peer pressure, money, family and friends. We know that when these young people get to high school they're going to face the greatest amount of peer pressure they're ever going to face."
This past Friday, three Franklin County teens were killed when their pickup truck hit an oncoming van. Authorities believe alcohol played a role in that accident.
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