Nearly one in five adult Americans
experienced mental illness in 2013
9.3 million Americans had
serious thoughts of suicide in the past year.
A new report finds that
43.8 million adults (age 18 or older) experienced a diagnosable mental illness in
2013. The report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) also finds that 10 million adults experienced a serious
mental illness and 15.7 million adults experienced a major depressive episode
in 2013. These results are consistent with 2012 findings.
Vice Wars: Tobacco, Alcohol and the Rise
of Big Marijuana
Drug reformers always
dreamed of a world where users were safe and dealers were free. Then that world
arrived, at least in the states where marijuana is legal. Now they see a new
nightmare on the horizon: Big Pot. Please click here to continue reading.
Small Alcohol Consumption in Pregnancy
Won't Hurt Baby
We should be clear:
researchers are in no way saying that it's okay to regularly drink during
pregnancy. However if an expecting mother very occasionally drinks a wine
cooler or takes part in a Champagne toast during her child's nine months, she
won't be dooming her child to a heightened risk of an adverse birth outcome. Please click here to continue reading.
Why heroin has made a comeback in
America
HEROIN was a scourge
of America's cities in the 1960s and 70s. But then it seemed to go out of
fashion. By the 1990s it was less widely used than crack cocaine. In Europe its
use has continued to decline, with the number of addicts falling by about
one-third in the past decade. In America, by contrast, it is resurgent. Last
year nearly 700,000 Americans took the drug, twice as many as a decade ago. It
is now more popular than crack, by some measures. What explains heroin's
return? Click here to continue reading.
'Drink responsibly' message not
effective, says study on alcohol advertising
The "drink
responsibly" or "enjoy in moderation" messages tucked into
liquor and beer ads don't impress Jennifer Romo. "Nobody actually takes
that seriously," said the 21-year-old political science major at
UCLA. Click here to read more.
Call To Ban Intravenous Drips As
Hangover Cure
Supporters say there is
nothing wrong with IV therapy being used across the US to help people recover
from the night before. Click here to continue reading.
Ability to consume alcohol may have
shaped primate evolution
Craving a stiff drink
after the holiday weekend? Your desire to consume alcohol, as well as your
body's ability to break down the ethanol that makes you tipsy, dates back about
10 million years, researchers have discovered. The new finding not only helps
shed light on the behavior of our primate ancestors, but also might explain why
alcoholism-or even the craving for a single drink-exists in the first place. Click here to read more.
The great American relapse
PICTURE a heroin
addict. "A bum sitting under a bridge with a needle in his arm, robbing
houses to feed his addiction," is what many people might imagine, believes
Cynthia Scudo. That image may have been halfway accurate when heroin first
ravaged America's inner cities in the 1960s and 1970s. But Ms Scudo, a smartly
dressed young grandmother from a middle-class Denver suburb, knows that these
days it is not always like that. Until not so long ago, she was a heroin addict
herself. Click here to continue reading.
Why Colleges Haven't Stopped Binge
Drinking
Despite decades of
research, hundreds of campus task forces, and millions invested in bold
experiments, college drinking remains as much of a problem as ever. Click here to read the rest of this
story.
Stopping the flow of alcohol on campus –
Editorial
ON NOV. 22, the University
of Virginia hosted its last home football game of the season or, as it has come
to be known, "the fourth-year fifth." It is a reference to the
long-standing practice of seniors consuming a fifth of liquor by the game's
kickoff. The game was played on the same weekend that an explosive article
about an alleged rape roiled the Charlottesville campus - a fitting coincidence
that underscored the troubling nexus between alcohol abuse and sexual assault. Please click here for the rest of
this story.
Nearly 1 in 12 Americans Struggles with
Depression
Almost 8 percent of
Americans aged 12 and older were moderately to severely depressed during 2009
to 2012, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday. Click here to read the rest of this
story.
The great beer abandonment: America's
young drinkers are drinking wine and hard alcohol instead
America's young adults
aren't that into beer anymore. The percentage of twenty-somethings who prefer
beer to other alcohol has fallen drastically over the past two decades,
according to a new study published by Goldman Sachs Investment Research. Just
twenty years ago, nearly three-quarters of youths aged 18 to 29 said they liked
beer best. Today, after years of steady decline, the percentage of young beer
lovers is down to just 40 percent. Please click here to read the rest
of the story.
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