The More Alcohol Make Your Brain Shrinks

Posted by Kapplak | February 27th, 2010 in Alcohol Info, The More Alcohol Make Your Brain Shrinks | No Comments »

the more alcohol make your brain shrinks

A group of scientists has revealed that the more alcohol a person consumes, the more your brain shrinks. Their study contrasts with other reports have shown that moderate consumption of alcohol itself can be good for the heart.

The long-lived teetotalers had the least volume loss cerebra lLos Researchers led by Carol Ann Paul of Wellesley College in Massachusetts wanted to know whether alcohol also protected against the inevitable loss of brain volume that people experience as birthdays. But they found that it is not.

In fact, long-lived teetotalers had the least loss of brain volume, while ex-drinkers, moderate consumers of alcohol and those taking large amounts of alcohol experienced more progressive brain reduction, as they wrote in the journal Archives of Neurology .

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Alcoholism Treatment

Posted by Kapplak | February 26th, 2010 in Alcohol Treatment | No Comments »

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Treatments for alcoholism include detoxification programs conducted by medical institutions. This may involve the patient’s stay for an indefinite period (perhaps several weeks), specialized hospital wards where can the use of certain drugs to avoid withdrawal symptoms of alcoholism.

After the period of detoxification (alcohol detoxification), the patient may be subjected to various methods of group therapy or psychotherapy to treat psychological problems of substance that may have to take the patient to dependence.

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Juvenile Alcoholism

Posted by Kapplak | February 25th, 2010 in Juvenile Alcoholism | No Comments »

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More than 1,200 pupils aged between 12 and 18 years of age from four secondary schools in Marbella, participate in the educational program that will conduct the Alcohol and Society Foundation with the aim of informing them about the effects of abuse of alcohol. According to data handled by the Foundation, 60% of young people between 12 and 18 consume alcohol.

In Marbella, the aforementioned foundation, non-profit, will launch its program to over one thousand students but until next February will keep open the registration period for schools so soon is expected to permit increased number beneficiaries.

As for the content of the campaign developed by the non-profit Foundation has three free programs: Adolescence and Alcohol, Alcohol and faces Parent School.

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Vaccine Alcoholism

Posted by Kapplak | February 24th, 2010 in Vaccine Alcoholism | No Comments »

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U.S. scientists say that a simple vaccine could be alcoholism. It would also be effective against drug.

It was recently released a study that has as its protagonists to researchers at the University of San Francisco, California.

Ever tried a shot, with success in mice, which promises to end the evil of alcoholism. The substance applied, scientists explain, is a growth factor essential for the formation of kidney and motor neurons.

Known as GDNF, the substance may be related to the part of the brain that is affected by the vice of alcohol and other drugs such as cocaine or morphine.

Specialists in mice injected this fluid in the brain and noticed that the intake of alcohol decreased. The animals who had been drunk and not drink again the same way after application.

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Posted by Kapplak | February 23rd, 2010 in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | No Comments »

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In the U.S., alcohol (wine, beer or liquor) is the leading preventable cause of mental and physical birth defects.

When a woman drinks alcohol during pregnancy risks giving birth to a baby who will pay the consequences, mentally handicapped and physically-for the rest of his life.

Still, many pregnant women drink alcohol, and it is estimated that each year in the U.S. one in every 750 babies is born with a picture of physical, developmental and functional known as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Another 40,000 children born each year with fetal alcohol effects (FAE).

In the event that your child is adopted, there are signs that may indicate the presence of fetal alcohol syndrome. Or, if you have consumed alcohol during pregnancy and are concerned that your child may suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome, there are some signs that should be set.

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Alcohol And Minors

Posted by Kapplak | February 22nd, 2010 in Alcohol And Minors, Alcohol Info | No Comments »

alcohol and minorsThe sale of alcoholic beverages to minors is not only punishable by law but is also extremely harmful to the health of young people who consume it. The consumption of alcoholic beverages by persons under 21 years is related to injury and risky behavior. Teenagers who drink alcohol are also at risk of suffering a long list of injuries and possible lifetime alcoholism.

Research on this subject indicate that the human brain continues to develop until approximately early twenties and a developing brain exposed to alcohol may suffer lasting effects on intellectual capabilities and may increase the chances of alcohol addiction. Every year approximately 5,000 children and young people under 21 years as a result of alcohol under the legal age allowed – due to vehicular accidents, homicides and suicides. Dangers associated with alcohol consumption of adolescents age of first use of alcohol affects of alcohol problems that appear later in adulthood.

For each year that will delay the onset of alcohol consumption is reduced by 14 percent the risk of later alcohol dependence.

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Hereditary Alcoholism

Posted by Kapplak | February 20th, 2010 in Diseases of Alcohol, Hereditary Alcoholism | 1 Comment »

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A study by the research group at the University of Granada “Alcoholism and Drug Addiction” has demonstrated the genetic predisposition to develop the “disease of alcoholism”, indicating that the deficiency of endorphin is hereditary.

In a statement, AndalucĂ­a Investiga explained that beta-endorphin is a kind of morphine produced by the body in the brain in response to various situations, among which is the pain.

Chronic alcoholics have levels of beta-endorphin very so low, can be considered as “endogenous analgesics” and that inhibit pain transmission, so that scientists from Granada have focused their attention on low levels of beta-endorphins that have the chronic alcoholics.

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Alcohol Shoot The Risk of Mouth

Posted by Kapplak | February 19th, 2010 in Alcohol Shoot The Risk of Mouth, Effects of Alcohol | 1 Comment »

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The snuff is a carcinogen for aerodigestive mucosa of the mouth, larynx and lungs circled that alcohol is a lower risk.

The snuff and alcohol trigger the risk of developing a tumor in the mouth. The snuff is a carcinogen for aerodigestive mucosa of the mouth, larynx and lungs, circled that alcohol is a lower risk, but if you add snuff and alcohol chances of oral cancer increase exponentially, according to Julio Steel Maxillofacial Surgeon and Hospital Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid Chiron.

Oral tumors are increasing among women, probably due to the change in lifestyle.

“Until recently, the typical patient was an older man, smoker, alcoholic … However, in recent years the incidence in women is increasing and they are seeing increasingly younger patients,” said Dr Steel.

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Alcohol In Society

Posted by Kapplak | February 18th, 2010 in Alcohol In Society, Alcohol Info | 1 Comment »

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Information about alcohol in antiquity dating back over three thousand years A. C. The fermentation of juice and beans was a common activity to achieve strong and liquid alcohol, enjoyable for the drunken state that carried them. For gold, the process of distillation was conducted to IX D. C. thus appearing of the great variety of liquors that are known today.

Since the beginning of the production and manufacture of alcoholic beverages, he predilection of humans to their consumption has different roots. At first instance, the drunken state he carried consumption was one of the main reasons. Disinhibition and the confidence it produces, has helped and continues to do so, the opening of interpersonal relationships.

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Legal Drugs

Posted by Kapplak | February 17th, 2010 in Alcohol Info | 1 Comment »

legal drugsThe variety of existing drugs, can be differentiated in various ways. They can be as natural or synthetic drugs, drugs, stimulants or depressants, this in relation to how the central nervous system or hallucinogenic drugs as well as legal or illegal. The latter is what concerns us is the case.

This differentiation is restricted by the states, while the consumption, production and sale, always taking into account the characteristics of each drug and its possible effects.

In this case, the difference between legal and illegal substances, is produced as follows. Among the legal drugs are alcohol, snuff, psychotropic drugs, stimulants, minor and some opium-derived drugs such as methadone, codeine or morphine, in a case of medical use.

Moreover, in illegal drugs are cannabis derivatives such as marijuana or hashish, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD, ecstasy and heroin among others. Also, in many cases, legal drugs are also used medically in a black market trade.

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