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A study by University of Washington psychologists shows some people continue to drink heavily because of perceived positive effects, despite experiencing negative effects such as hangovers, fights and regrettable sexual situations.According to participants in the study, boosts of courage, chattiness and other social benefits of drinking outweigh its harms, which they generally did not consider as strong deterrents.The findings offer a new direction for programs targeting binge drinking, which...
The research is presented this week at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Atlanta.By Dawn Fuller, University of CincinnatiIt's considered a rite of passage among young people "“ acting out their independence through heavy, episodic drinking. But a new University of Cincinnati study, the first of its kind nationally, is showing how binge drinking among adolescents and young adults could be causing serious damage to a brain that's still under development at this...
Study shows that later class start times in college are associated with delayed sleep schedules, increased binge drinking and lower gradesAlthough a class schedule with later start times allows colleges students to get more sleep, it also gives them more time to stay out drinking at night. As a result, their grades are more likely to suffer, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the...
Administrative information can be useful for surveillance and understanding of alcohol-related harm in young people, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj110367.pdfBinge drinking and overconsumption of alcohol by young people is a growing issue in many countries. For example, in a 2009 study, almost 60% of young Canadians aged 15-24 reported having consumed alcohol in the previous month, with 22% reporting...
The latest survey of Ontario adults from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows increasing rates of daily drinking and cannabis use and high levels of psychological distress. The results of the 2009 CAMH Monitor survey, the longest running survey tracking mental health and addiction indicators among adults in Ontario, were published today.AlcoholThe proportion of adults reporting daily drinking increased from 5.3% in 2002 to over 9% in 2009. The average number of drinks...
NEW YORK, June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The June 12 issue of PARADE magazine explores the growing trend of extreme underage drinking. While it's no secret that teens drink--some as early as junior high school--for many, the point is to get as drunk as possible, as quickly as possible, in part to reduce the social anxiety rife at that age. And now, there are more dangerous ways to accomplish this: The practice of mixing alcohol with highly caffeinated energy drinks; the marketing of...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Binge drinking by young adults is prevalent in the United States and increasing in Europe. The brain's hippocampus is particularly sensitive to alcohol's neurotoxicity, and these new findings show a clear link between binge drinking and a reduced ability to learn new verbal information.MarÃa Parada, a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain and first author of the study and her colleagues examined 122 Spanish university students...
Binge drinking, which is widespread among university students, especially in the United States, has been found to destroy long term memory even in young adults. Researchers believe that heavy consumption of alcohol makes it more difficult to build new memories because the hippocampus -- an area in the brain's center that plays a vital role in learning and memory -- is very susceptible to alcohol's poisonous effects. In a Spanish study, to be published in the August 2011 issue of Alcoholism:...
   * Binge drinking by young adults is prevalent in the United States and increasing in Europe.   * The brain's hippocampus is particularly sensitive to alcohol's neurotoxicity.   * New findings show a clear link between binge drinking and a reduced ability to learn new verbal information.Binge drinking is prevalent among university students, especially in the United States. One brain structure particularly sensitive to alcohol's neurotoxicity during development...
In the past ten years, the proportion of British girls aged 16 to 24 who admit to binge drinking, or having at least six drinks in succession, has increased to 27% from 17%, think-tank Demos reports from data collected by YouGov.At least half of 15-year-old girls have been drunk at least twice "“ this is almost double to the average for other developed countries. For every three 13-year-old girls, one has been drunk at least twice. This rate is higher than any other country from the...
