Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
... part oftheir ongoing study of ways to measure how alcohol consumption affectsspeech. The current project is ...re sober, moderatelyintoxicated (.05 percent blood alcohol level) and highly intoxicated(.10 percent blood alcohol level or higher, considered legally drunk in...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
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... vicious cycles of stress-eating,over-indulging in alcohol , cigarette smoking and other unhealthy habits." But McEwen's advice comes with a caveat: exercise won't help everyonewithout also dealing with other factors in their lives. "Numerousstudies show that the lower down you are on the socioeconomic scal......ed to forcedalcohol consumption and, subsequently, alcohol withdrawal conditions, theyexhibit enhanced anxiog...eficient mice showedless anxiogenic behavior under alcohol withdrawal then wild-type mice. Thus byeliminating CRHR1 functions, anxiogenic behavior can be manip...Dying To Quit: Why We Smoke And How We Stop
...e interconnections between nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol and the link between nicotine and more severe psychological disturbances such as depression and schizophrenia. She also offers some surprising truths about the 'gains and losses' associated with smoking, citing studies that indicate that a weight gai...Unhealthy Lifestyles Not Primary Cause Of High Mortality Rates
... four behavioral risk factors---cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity and weight. Lantz and her colleagues examined the impact of education, income and these health behaviors on the risk of dying in the next 7.5 years in a national sample of 3,617 adults who were first interviewed in 198...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...rugs account for only a handful of deathsannually, alcohol 50,000 and tobacco 400,000," he wrote. Scientific research on fetal and childhood development also neglectstobacco studies, wrote Slotkin, with cocaine the subject of three to four timesthe number of published research papers as nicotine. ...Athletes, Fraternity Men Are Top Drinkers
...ale college athletes consume about 50 percent more alcohol than their counterparts who don't participate in i...rs consumed. "Team leaders appear to abuse alcohol to a somewhat greater extent than their teammates," Meilman says. "One would hope that they could s...Study Finds St. John's Wort Can Cut Alcohol Consumption
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...r thosepatients who have active substance abuse or alcohol problems, says another studyStone will present Wednesday, July 1. Although they can stick to treatment, women, minorities and patients with lesseducation are less likely to be offered potent drug cocktails containingprotease inhibitors, according to ...UCSF Researchers Seeing Increased Rates Of Unprotected Sex Among San Francisco Gay Men
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...known that there seems to be a strong link between alcohol intake and cancers of the upper digestive tract, b...cinogenic effect of alcohol. But does the type of alcohol we drink make a difference? In this week's BMJ Dr Morten Gronbaek from the Copenhagen Centre for Pr...Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense Of Smell
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