Alcoholism Blog with Buddy T July 2005 Archive

Research shows that involved parenting actually affects teenagers' thought processes when it comes to such substances, giving teens a negative view of people who drink or smoke cigarettes or marijuana, ... Read More

Investigators have begun to examine alcohol dependence in relation to its component parts – called phenotypes – to better understand the genetic bases of alcohol use and dependence. Read More: Genetics ... Read More

Less than one percent of the nation's health plan members are diagnosed with alcoholism or related disorders and the American Medical Association says that number should be four or five ... Read More

The finding of two separate populations of immune cells in the liver may help doctors understand the mechanisms by which the liver is damaged and repaired and could lead to ... Read More

New research shows that meeting with an addiction peer counselor just once at the time of a routine doctor visit with a followup booster phone call can motivate abusers of ... Read More

A recent study found that acetaldehyde -- the first product of alcohol metabolism -- leads to hangovers in alcohol drinkers with a particular genotype. Drinkers can experience cardiovascular complications, drowsiness, ... Read More

A new "Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire" has been developed to better detect when symptoms are present or absent and for measuring less severe alcohol problems more common among ... Read More

Children and adult bystanders who witness repeated abuse inflicted on others may experience both a psychological and physiological stress level that, over time, can equal that of the victim. Read More: ... Read More

There may be a close link between the brain mechanisms that control the motivation to drink alcohol and those that control the intake of food. Researchers believe if alcoholism and ... Read More

Individuals with the gene variant have greater subjective feelings to alcohol's effects as well as a greater likelihood of a family history of alcohol-use disorders. But the development of ... Read More

Treatment outcomes for alcoholism may have less to do with which kind of therapy is used and more to do with the participant's determination to quit drinking, according to a ... Read More

Drug abusers misusing prescription fentanyl pain patches, which are designed to slowly release the painkiller, to get a quick high are running the risk of dying from an overdose of ... Read More

People with gambling problems have personality profiles similar to profiles of individuals with alcohol, marijuana and nicotine-associated disorders. Young adults with a problem gambling diagnosis were more likely to have ... Read More

Emergency department patients with unmet substance abuse treatment need generate much higher hospital and emergency department charges than patients without such need. Addressing substance abuse problems in emergency departments would ... Read More

The American Medical Association released the results of two nationwide polls that revealed the extent of underage consumption and marketing exposure to alcopops or so-called girlie drinks. Hard-liquor brands are ... Read More

Initial drug use may be voluntary, but once addiction develops control is disrupted in the circuitry of the brain. Recent studies have shed new light on the relationship between drug ... Read More

Drug users are more likely to have little concern for the rights of others and ignore age-appropriate societal rules than people who do not have substance abuse disorders, according to ... Read More

Local law enforcement officials say methamphetamine is the biggest problem facing law enforcement on the local level -- more than cocaine, marijuana and heroin -- and state and federal authorities ... Read More

Patients who receive buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction in an office–based setting are more likely to be young men, new to drug use, and with no history of methadone treatment. Read ... Read More