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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 |
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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Alcohol-related crashes killed 2,206 youth in 1995, reflecting 36 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the age group.
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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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| Disinhibition - particularly for adolescents, heavy alcohol consumption increases the risk of unsafe sex, uncontrolled behaviour and illicit drug use. |
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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 at work had mystery bruises, an inquest heard.
John Robert Sidaway, of Heath Road, died two days after being admitted to Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley.
Acting Dudley coroner Robin Balmain yesterday recorded a verdict of death by natural causes.
The inquest was told that the heart attack was a consequence of alcohol-related heart problems.
Mr Balmain said the bruising was not a factor in his death. Some were old bruises and others from when he was being restrained by security staff.
Mr Sidaway was admitted on August 22, and that night was restless, agitated and seemed paranoid. Nurses said he acted oddly the next morning.
Fearing he was a danger to himself and others, nurses called security staff who restrained him until he was sedated. He died the next day. Mr Sidaway's sister June Gibbons said he had fits as a child, and had two before he died.
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