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Outdoor alcohol advertising and problem drinking among African-American women in NYC

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health indicates that the advertising of alcohol in predominantly African-American neighborhoods of New York City may add to problem drinking behavior ...





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UK incidence of children living with substance-misusing parents considerably underestimated

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current figures underestimate the number of children who may be at risk of harm from parental substance use. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health have generated new estimates using five nation ...


Preference for Alcohol in Adolescence May Lead to Heavy Drinking

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown a connection between early drinking patterns and a tendency to be a heavy drinker in adulthood, in a study of adolescent rats.


'Hazardous drinking' may be a new 'check stop' on the way to alcohol dependence

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current diagnostic guides divide alcohol-use disorders into two categories: alcohol abuse/harmful use and alcohol dependence. Some researchers and clinicians believe this is insufficient, that there should be a third, preceding ...


Helping doctors ask about drug, alcohol problems

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- If more doctors started asking, would more drug and alcohol abusers 'fess up so they could get help?


Families suffer from problem gambling

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Many people perceive gambling to be a harmless recreational activity. However, it is estimated that six to eight million people in the United States personally suffer from a gambling related problem. This problem seems to ...


Naltrexone can help heavy social drinkers quit smoking

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Naltrexone, an opioid antagonist approved in 1994 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for alcohol-dependence (AD) treatment, can reduce relapse rates among AD patients. Research on naltrexone's effectiveness on nicotine ...


Adolescents' gambling a part of a cluster of problem behaviors

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalo's Research ...


Solving big problems

Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (28) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...


Do we need dark matter?

Do we need dark matter?

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 28

It's the biggest problem in physics: the matter we can see in the universe accounts for just five per cent of the observed gravity that holds galaxies together.


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...



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