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Causes Of Alcohol Use - Articles
7 Causes of Teenage Alcoholism and Teenage Drug Abuse
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addictiondoc
Posted
Sun 19 Dec 2010 11:35am
. Are you wondering why teenage substance abuse is part of your life?
Here are the 7 main causes of teenage alcoholism and teenage drug abuse:
1. Genetics/parental modeling: If you see your parents drink, you are much more likely to drink. If one or both of your parents is an alcoholic and you drink before the age of 21, you are 3-4 times more likely
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Alcohol causes cancer, and here’s the evidence
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Cancer Research UK
Posted
Thu 28 Jan 2010 12:00am
and drinking often go hand-in-hand. Likewise, being overweight also causes cancer, and drinking alcohol can make people put on weight. These are called “confounding factors” and scientists use statistical methods to adjust for them. In this way, they can consider the effects of alcohol alone.
Typically, scientists measure alcohol consumption
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alcoholism can cause infertility
by
Doris C.
Posted
Mon 21 Jul 2008 10:00am
even result in being the cause to some men and women’s infertility problems. It does not matter if a woman just drinks occasionally or is a full blown alcoholic, she is at high risk for becoming infertile because of the use of alcohol and if a woman drinks alcohol when she is pregnant, there is a very high chance that if she can go through the pregnancy
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Alcoholism causes sleep problems even during extended abstinence
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Dr. John Z.
Posted
Sun 03 Jan 2010 12:00am
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Results indicate that in long-term alcoholics who had not had a drink for up to 719 days, the percentage of slow wave sleep was significantly lower (6.6 percent in men, 11.1 percent... of Melbourne in Australia, also was surprised to find that a significant increase in the percentage of REM sleep persisted in alcoholics who had abstained from drinking for an extended
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How Alcohol Causes Beer Bellies
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Methods of Healing

Posted
Sun 28 Mar 2010 10:57pm
in the snacks you have while drinking the relaxing cold beer and the lack of exercise you avoid doing while relaxing to drink it.
Slowed Metabolism in Alcohol Causes Beer Bellies... are stored as fat. The body also metabolizes the alcohols in your system before it uses the calories we have stored in our bodies.
When you drink you eat or snack. Alcohol usually
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Alcohol Can Cause Brain Damage
by
Dave W

Posted
Wed 01 Jul 2009 6:45pm
that use of stimulants, especially cocaine increases capacity and urge for alcohol consumption). It is therefore perhaps not unsurprising that consultant psychiatrist, Dr Jane...-drinking, especially amongst women. It’s a biological fact that women have less capacity to deal with alcohol than men. It is therefore not surprising that there are links reported
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