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91. A New Look at Binge Drinking on Campus
    

    Feb. 29, 2000 (New York) -- Three years after a definitive Harvard study indicated that 42% of college students were binge drinkers, the same researchers are set to release an updated report that will show whether anything has changed. The 1997 study, along with several highly publicized alcohol-rel

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92. 'Embarrassing' Diseases Send Sufferers to Support Groups
    

    Feb. 25, 2000 (Atlanta) -- Misery loves company, and Americans coping with illnesses love support groups. The more socially stigmatizing the illness, researchers report, the more likely a sufferer is to seek the advice of others in the same boat, whether face to face or over the Internet. "I had ass

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93. Drinkers Beware: How Booze Can Make You Swoon
    

    Jan. 31, 2000 (Atlanta) -- Mothers throughout the ages have warned that standing too quickly can cause lightheadedness. Researchers have known that alcohol can make matters worse. Now they know how. Alcohol, even in moderate amounts, impairs the ability of blood vessels to constrict upon standing, a

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94. A Possible Solution to Drunken Driving
    

    Jan. 17, 2000 (Atlanta) -- About three in every 10 Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives, and thousands more will lose their lives to a drunken driver. Although impaired driving is going down in many areas, it is still a public health threat of epidemic p

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95. Antisocial Alcoholism Increasing in Men and Women
    

    Dec. 16, 1999 (Atlanta) -- The prevalence of antisocial alcoholism may be increasing in both men and women, according to a report in the December issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Physicians say prevention and early intervention efforts are critical, particularly for

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96. When Alcohol Becomes a Problem
    

    Alcohol-use disorders (AUDs) are probably the most common mental disorders in the United States: Nearly one person in seven suffers from an AUD at some time in his or her life. The prevalence of AUDs among men is about three-to-five times greater than among women. Nevertheless, alcohol can have seri

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97. Enzyme May Offer New Target for Treatment of Alcoholism
    

    Oct. 18, 1999 (Indianapolis) -- Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, have identified an enzyme that might one day become useful in the treatment of alcoholism. Their report, published in the November issue of Nature Neuroscience, shows that mice genetically engineered to lac

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