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In some countries, people prefer alcohol over coffee or fruit juices. They enjoy its taste and usually have it regularly as their beverage. Whatever reasons you have for drinking, it is undeniable that alcohol drinking can have short and long term effects to your life. Short Term Effects Alc...
Alcohol may be a big part of a person's social group or may have been a part of family life (sometimes quite destructively). A person may turn to alcohol to get relief from stress (which frequently backfires, because the drinking causes problems of its own). Family support and healthy fr...
Alcohol use has been suggested to interfere with condom use and to increase sexual risk behaviors. However, data on the prevalence of this practice among female sex workers and its association with condom use and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are limited. Data were collected through the ...
Ethanol and its metabolites display a toxic influence on human organism. Low- ered immunity, greater susceptibility to infectious diseases, increased accident rate, more frequent cranial-cerebral injuries, bone fractures, osteoporosis and suicides occur in people abusing alcohol. Alcohol abuse is often ...
social transmission of different behaviours16,17, the application of epidemiological frameworks to noncommunicable diseases is still in its infancy. Methodological innovations have emerged that incorporate factors such as group interactions, context-dependent relationships and multiplex networks18,19,20. Social...
effects, including lower mentions of study habits, increased mentions of potentially risky behaviors, and decreases in mentions of positive emotions. We conclude with a discussion of social media data’s role in the study of the risky behaviors of college students and o...
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine whether the composition of social networks contributes to sexual orientation disparities in substance use and misuse. METHOD: Data were obtained from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative cohort...
THE ENGLISH DRINK PROBLEM: ITS RISE AND DECLINE THROUGH THE AGES For many centuries the loathsome and odious sin of drunkenness held this country in a firm grip tightening it even closer on a number of occasions. Numerous unco-ordinated efforts made by social reformers,the Churches,Legislators ...
Alcoholism, or alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a condition that extends its effects far beyond the individual struggling with it. It infiltrates family systems, disrupting relationships and creating cycles of conflict, mistrust, and emotional strain. For families navigating the challenges of recovery,...