Alcohol

According to the latest scientific research, parents who occasionally drink alcoholic beverages with their teenage children at home may prevent them from buying their own drinks. More than 10,000 teenagers participated in the survey held in UK.

Parents who do not want their children to drink alcohol behind their back, are advised to limit the pocket money to less than 10 pounds a week. Researchers have come to the conclusion that teenagers who buy alcohol secretly from their parent are six times as likely to drink alcoholic beverages in public places, three times as likely to grow up into regular drinkers and twice as likely to become binge drinkers. The research also suggests the government should prevent the marketing of alcohol to teenagers.

	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
... orders over Internet, to have sex or doing anything else and not being aware of it. Dr. Russel Katz, director for neurology product at the F.D.A., said that the cause for all these effects could be alcohol. And even thought the manufacturers mention the danger of taking a sleeping pills while consuming alcohol, Dr. Katz thinks this mentioning should be limited to the fact that "not a drop (of alcohol) is allowed". Thus...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...A new drug list was revised by Britain's drug experts to reveal that alcohol and tobacco put your health at greater risk than such dangerous drugs as LSD, cannabis and ecstasy. Experts conducted a new all-compassing research with the government top advisory committee involved to make a shocking conclusion on the harm of regular tobacco and alcohol. A modern classification of drugs doesn't reflect the real situatio...
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	2.3 million alcoholics live in Russia
...When the world saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia found itself in a difficult situation. Then the situation worsened and today the number of alcoholics has tripled in comparison with 1991. In average the statistics show that one person in Russia consumes about 34 litres of vodka a year. In his report, Gennadi Onichenko, Russia's chief medical officer, stated that the nation is currently facing a serious pr...
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	Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game
...is leading the development of a new interactive mobile phone game for students in the UK to help them overcome the culture shock. This is expected to be achieved through pictures of students drinking alcohol or a couple kissing in public, integrated into the game - things not allowed in certain cultures. The game is called C-Shock and it is being developed by Nipan Minar, who himself arrived five years ago from India t...
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	Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia
...tral square in Tallinn. April 27, 2007 - After police used tear gas against the defenders of the statue, riots broke out, where six police officers were injured. The city-council of Tallinn banned alcohol sales in the capital. The bronze statue was disassembled during the night. During riots a 20-year old young man was stabbed to death and other 44 were injured; an employee of the Latvian embassy injured. On the Kamcha...
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	Alcohol Consumption at Home Can Prevent Binge Drinking
...Parents may prevent their teenage children to buy boose by consuming alcohol with them at home. This statement was made after a survey of 10,000 teenagers. The survey, which took place in UK, backs the continental style of early introduction of limited amount of alcoholic drinks to the teenagers. Thus, according to the study made by academics together with trading standard officers, parents who don't want their childr...
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	8.2% Social Workers Took Drugs Last Month, Study Says
...l Health Services Administration, in most cases social workers confessed of smoking marijuana. In addition the research showed that 8.8% of American social workers (10.1 million) have problems with alcohol: during the last month they have consumed at least 5 different alcoholic drinks for 5 times. Powered by www.infoniac.com. ...
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	Your Health is fine, Mr. Bush!
...early medical examination. According to the doctors' report, George W. Bush is perfectly healthy, he does physical exercises six times per week and rides a bicycle. The President takes absolutely no alcohol, smokes a cigar from time to time and takes multivitamins. The medical report also said that Bush didn't take any prescriptive drugs and that he preferred low-calorie diet drinks. Examination showed that Bush lost ab...
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	Crime Story Writer - a Cruel Killer?
...ellectual work. According to critics' reviews, the Amok novel's plot is focused on a group of intellectuals bored of their monotonous life. They try to compensate the lack of excitement by drugs, alcohol and sex. The novel is written in aggressive and expressive language mixed with philosophical musings. Police commissar Jaceck Wroblewski, responsible for the investigation, claimed he had read the novel a few times...
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	Cars to Say 'No!' to Drunk Drivers
...maker from Sweden, has developed a device not to allow drunk drivers start their cars. The Alcoguard breath-analyzer looks the same as a TV remote-control handset. It is responsible for measuring the alcohol level in a driver's blood. In case the alcohol amount is above the legal maximum - that is less than 0.2 g/l in Sweden - the car will simply not start. Volvo will initially produce 2,000 models of Alcoguard to supp...
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	A Man Chose Electrocution After Killing His Sons
...ed from deep depression at the time of committing the crime. The reason for such a serious crime was his belief that his children did not deserve to be brought up by their mother who suffered from alcohol addiction and had an abuse history. After leaving his military job, when Holton had to spend most of the time overseas, he came back home to take custody of his children. However, his wife won the case. In 1997, h...
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	Women Are Interested in Puzzles More Than in Sex, Study Says
...s now men would have to take some time to make women become more affected with men than with other things such interesting things like puzzles, TV shows and Harry Potter books. Furthermore drinking alcohol was among the most unpopular occupations for both sexes: it became the last thing women would do and the second last for men. However, experts say that men should start panic, as only 17% women said they have absolute...
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	Programmers Created Writer-Robot
...s living on a deserted island. One of the authors of the computer program Alexandr Prokopovich said that editors depend on the writers, while the latter may not have an inspiration or suffer from alcohol addiction and delay the date of the book release. With this software, you can be sure that book will be written in time, having the style that is required by editor. The software programmers had an experience of deve...
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	Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness
...he issue can be found among middle-aged women who frequently work on home computers. According to the researchers, some Internet addicts use computer in order to escape reality, just like drug and alcohol addicts. One may be addicted to nearly everything, starting with pure act of typing, visiting chat rooms, shopping on-line and ending up with multiplayer games, which users characterize as "heroinware." John Macdon...
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