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The middle-class trend of “wine o’clock” is increasing the rate of heart problems, liver disease and even alcohol-induced dementia. And doctors warn people who enjoy a “few glasses” of wine at home each evening could be suffering from a form of chronic alcoholism. While most responsible drinking advertising targets young people, there is also a growing

Australian youth are drinking and smoking less than before. AAP School-aged Aussie kids are drinking less alcohol and smoking less tobacco and cannabis, The study is the work of researchers at Deakin University, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, and has been published in the Drug and Alcohol Review journal.

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These data and subsequent analysis suggest that different trajectories of adolescent cannabis use are associated with distinct patterns of neural reward circuit function in early adulthood. Escalating marijuana use presents a higher risk for impaired motivation, including elevated depressive symptoms, anhedonia and poor educational attainment. It follows that alterations, perhaps the degradations of the reward

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By Erin Allday: November 26, 2017  Just weeks before recreational pot becomes legal in California, San Francisco public health officials have published a report on their best guesses for problems that could arise from widespread marijuana use, including abuse of the drug by young people and unforeseen health risks among adults. The challenge, authors of the

November 8, 2017 “At this time, surprisingly little is known about the impacts of cannabis on the development of cancer in humans,” said Dr. Callaghan, the study’s lead author. “With Canada and other countries currently experimenting with the decriminalization or legalization of recreational cannabis use, it is critically important to understand the potential harms of

Chronic alcohol drinking kills stem cells in key regions of the brain and reduces the development of new nerve cells in adults  For the first time, research showed that female brains showed more severe deficits than males Researchers said this discovery provides a new way of approaching the problem of alcohol-related changes in the brain

Download PDF Today, Iceland tops the European table for the cleanest-living teens. The percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds who had been drunk in the previous month plummeted from 42 per cent in 1998 to 5 per cent in 2016. The percentage who have ever used cannabis is down from 17 per cent to 7 per

The WA government is calling for nationwide support for mandatory pregnancy health warnings on alcoholic beverages. 20/11/17 Alcohol sold in Australia should be labelled with mandatory health warnings for pregnant and breastfeeding women, the West Australian government says. WA Health Minister Roger Cook is calling for state, territory and federal governments to support compulsory health warnings