News tagged with noncommercial alcohol


Report finds extensive use of illicit alcohol

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The consumption of illicit or noncommercial alcohol is widespread in many countries worldwide and contributes significantly to the global burden of disease, according to a new report released today by the International Center ...





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Drinks industry supplanting government role in alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recent comparison of proposed national alcohol policies in Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, and Botswana shows that the drinks industry has assumed a significant and detrimental role in designing national alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan ...


Even low alcohol consumption has a negative impact on overall health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and he ...


Packages of care for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the latest article in PLoS Medicine's series proposing the delivery of "packages of care" for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the tr ...


Flies like us: They can act like addicts, too

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. That's according to a study published online on December 10th in Current Biology that is one of the ...


Wealth link to alcohol crime

Wealth link to alcohol crime

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rich rural towns show higher levels of alcohol-related crime than poorer communities, according to new research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.


Study finds higher survival rate among intoxicated trauma patients

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Trauma patients who were intoxicated before their injuries were more likely to survive than trauma patients who suffered similar injuries but were sober at the time, according to a study published in the October edition of ...


Genes that drive you to drink (but don't make you an alcoholic)

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Your genetic make up may predispose you to drink more but may not increase your genetic risk for alcoholism (alcohol dependence). Research published in the open access journal, BMC Biology, pinpoints genetic pathways and ge ...


Alcohol tolerance 'switch' found

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a genetic "switch" in fruit flies that plays an important role in making flies more tolerant to alcohol.


A new understanding of why seizures occur with alcohol withdrawal

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Epileptic seizures are the most dramatic and prominent aspect of the "alcohol withdrawal syndrome" that occurs when a person abruptly stops a long-term or chronic drinking habit. Researchers have shown that the flow of calcium ...


Concern over alcohol use among UK South Asians

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alcohol use in South Asians in the UK is under-recognised, and alcohol related harm is disproportionately high, warn researchers in an editorial published on BMJ.com today.



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