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The area of the brain that makes us want to mate keeps functioning, no matter how much we drink, meaning that people can still assess how visually-appealing others are, says Dr Amanda Ellison. “We still see others basically as they are,” she said. “There is no imagined physical transformation - just more desire." Dr Ellison, [...]
Australians love a drink, and some see no problem at all with drinking to excess. But now doctors, police and paramedics have called "time", warning that alcohol-fuelled violence has reached crisis levels. "We are not facing a crisis, we're in a crisis. It's occurring right now." Read the statistics and it's hard to argue with [...]
ALCOHOL and processed food companies are employing the same tactics as Big Tobacco to increase their profits at the expense of people's lives, health experts say. The tactics used include industry-funded biased research, political donations, ghost-writing of public policy and campaigns blaming individuals for their choices, an article in The Lancet said on Tuesday. Trusting [...]
Drinking too much Coke killed mother of eight Natasha Harris, a New Zealand coroner has found. Ms Harris drank up to 10 litres of Coke every day – equal to more than twice the recommended safe daily limit of caffeine and almost 1 kilogram of sugar. She died aged 30, on February 25, 2010, from [...]
This so-called rite-of-passage – more like a week-long binge – sees hundreds arrested for serious assault, drunk and disorderly conduct, drug possession and obstructing police. Scarce resources are deployed to mop up the mess. Many girls suffer sexual violence. Some families are left grieving the loss of a child who died at a schoolies event. [...]
My tilt at sobriety came after 20 years of partying that had left me physically and emotionally spent. It was ironic, given my job. Sunday Age readers may remember an article I wrote at the time, in which I outed myself as the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week I wrote about Australia's booze-soaked culture. [...]
Behind the healthy and wealthy facade of the northern beaches lies a secret problem: alcohol. For the second year in a row, a Fairfax Media analysis of health statistics has found residents of some of the northern suburbs are the healthiest when it comes to everything but alcohol use. Hospitalisations linked to alcohol use were [...]
Attention-deficit drugs increase concentration in the short term, which is why they work so well for college students cramming for exams. But when given to children over long periods of time, they neither improve school achievement nor reduce behavior problems. The drugs can also have serious side effects, including stunting growth. Sadly, few physicians and [...]
HENS' nights were once the domain of cheeky fun and light-hearted antics, but they are being taken to a crass new level as girls try to outdo the boys in celebrating their last moments as singles. The boisterous bride-to-be and her entourage have become such a problem that many Perth clubs and pubs have started [...]
ALCOHOLIC drinks may soon have to warn women against consuming them if pregnant. It was one of the recommendations made to the Australian Government in its report on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. FASD is a potential consequence of consuming booze while expecting. A child born with FASD will have a smaller head and brain defects [...]
