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Children who live in neighborhoods with a high number of alcohol outlets may be at a higher risk of personal injury, according to a research study that will be published in the November 2008 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
Heavy drinking early in life is associated with overweight, abdominal fat, and low levels of "good" cholesterol later in life, increasing risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke
Some teens believe they will stay virgins after engaging in oral sex, genital touching and even anal sex, according to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Also, nearly half of teens said intimate touching and oral sex were not considered sex.
Despite having one of the nation’s highest homicide rates, the Brazilian town of Diadema cut its murder rate in half in the last few years –mostly by establishing 11 p.m. as the closing time for bars and other places that sell alcohol.
Communities with few alcohol regulations could consider raising taxes on beer as a way to reduce drunken driving fatalities among young people.
Alcohol-control policies such as the minimum legal drinking age and raising beer taxes have helped prevent youth access to alcohol and the problems of underage drinking.
Clerks at grocery and convenience stores were more likely to sell alcohol to a young person without asking for an ID than other stores, according to a recent statewide study.
A new study by researchers in California has confirmed what many people have suspected,
that the incidence of violent assaults is higher around places where alcohol is sold.
Young people who listen to rap and hip hop music are more likely to have problems with alcohol,
drugs and violence than listeners of other types of music, a new study shows. The link to these problems raises serious questions about the alcohol
industry’s use of rap and hip hop to market products, the study author said.
Young military men in all branches
of service drink significantly more alcohol than their civilian counterparts. And, military
culture contributes to this ongoing problem, according to a recently published report.
Research has
shown that increasing price is a promising approach to
reducing alcohol consumption and related problems. However,
a new study finds that price increases may not always have
the intended effects on alcohol sales because the price and
availability of alcohol can have a complex relationship to
consumption. Instead, the most effective strategy may be the
establishment of minimum prices for each type of alcoholic
beverage.
Many Americans
believe that young people from European have less trouble with
alcohol because their cultures teach them to handle alcohol responsibly
from an early age. A recent report debunks that myth, showing
that a great majority of European countries have higher intoxication
rates among young people than the United States, and some countries
are much higher.
A Budweiser
commercial showing a rock star ferret replacing talking lizards
as the official beer mascot was appealing to children 10 to 17
years old and made them want to buy Bud, recent PRC research showed.
The wine industry
wants people to believe that wine itself is good for your health.
But new research shows instead that wine drinkers simply live
healthier lifestyles than beer drinkers, liquor drinkers or non-drinkers.
A newly published book, Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The Evidence Base for
Policy and Practice, is a comprehensive compendium of the most current information on the problem of drug and alcohol abuse and the
range of effective strategies available to prevent it.
When bars,
liquor stores and other businesses that sell alcohol are located
close together in neighborhoods, more assaults and other violent
crimes occur in those neighborhoods, according to a growing body
of research examined in a newly released white paper.
Adolescents
who take public virginity pledges are no less likely to engage
in various forms of sexual activity than adolescents who do not
take these pledges, a recent study of teen behavior found. The
study, carried out by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific
Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, California,
was based on a survey of 870 12- to 16-year-olds in the San Francisco
and Los Angeles areas of California, with follow-up surveys six
months and one year later.
The town of Diadema in Brazil has reduced its murder rate by almost half in the
last few years –mostly by establishing 11 PM as the closing
hour for bars and other places that sell alcohol for on-premises
consumption. This action resulted in the saving of about 273
lives in the two years following the change in policy. The
finding is reported by researchers at the Prevention Research
Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
in Berkeley, California who worked with government officials
from Diadema to document the effects of the policy change.
Community
attitudes and efforts on underage drinking may have the biggest
impact on whether teens binge drink and drive drunk, according
to new research.
With millions
of high school seniors entering college this month, university
administrators need to be vigilant in combating extremely hazardous
drinking that new research shows is worse among freshman males.
Drinking among
college students has been recognized as a serious problem on college
campuses in the U.S. Research has shown that college drinkers
drink more, and more often, than young people not in college.
Teens who
work more than ten hours per week are more likely to engage in
heavy or “binge” drinking, according to a recent study by the
Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research
and Evaluation (PIRE).
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