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06/08/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Doctors, lawyers, and teachers more likely to drink alcohol: Study

What do a doctor, a lawyer, and a teacher have in common? Aside from sounding like the start of a bar joke, people with these three working professional roles are “more likely to drink alcohol regularly than manual workers.” According to a study, at least four out of five of people in the U.K. who work […]

05/02/2018 / By JD Heyes

Another Obamacare fail: New study finds the terrible “healthcare reform” law is driving more Americans to drink

Of the myriad of problems associated with the healthcare reform disaster known as Obamacare, you can add alcoholism to the list. Or, at least, the threat of rising alcoholism. Just a few years into full implementation of the law and more Americans have taken up the drink, according to a new study, PJ Media reports. […]

02/26/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Fetal alcohol syndrome is grossly under-reported: Researchers discover numbers up to 400% higher than previously thought in some regions

Around one in 20 children are prone to having fetal alcohol syndrome, new data compiled by the University of California, Berkeley, showed. Across different regions, the rates of fetal alcohol disorders are between 13 and 400 percent higher than previous records showed. To illustrate, between 11.3 and 50 out of every 1,000 children are affected by […]

12/06/2017 / By David Williams

Independence from dependency: Almost half of people who report recovery from a problem with drugs or alcohol did it on their own — without assistance

In the U.S. alone, it has been estimated that there could be as many as 80 million Americans who deal with a drug or alcohol problem every single day. That’s close to a third of the entire country’s population, and undoubtedly a serious problem. Recent research from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) brings to light […]

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