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Connection Between Genetics and Alcohol Tolerance Found
While science still hasn’t decided whether or not alcoholism is genetic, they have found a gene that may answer why some people have a higher tolerance. From BBC News: Experts say they have found a...
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Booze More Deadly Than Smack Or Crack
"King Alcohol and his Prime Minister" circa 1820 Fuel for critics of the war on some drugs, from AP via Yahoo News: Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according...
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Outlaw Professor Confirms Alcohol ‘More Harmful Than Heroin’
[disinfo ed.'s note: although we ran a story about this report previously, we decided that Aaron's post had sufficient additional information to run it too.] Not sure about the “harm score”...
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Australian Search Engine ‘Groggle’ Gets Pushed Off The Wagon By Google
Groggle got its name from the word “grog,” Australian slang for booze. A search engine intended to help users compare alcohol prices in Australian stores easily lends itself to the “grog”-”Google” mash...
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Do Intelligent People Drink More?
Hunter S. Thompson Here’s a recent story from Discovery News as Liz Day writes: The next time you’re inclined to enjoy an extra glass of wine, consider that it may be a reflection of your intelligence....
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NYC’s Ilicit Four Loko Underground
Since the FDA outlawed the sickly-sweet, caffeinated, vomit-inducing alcoholic drink Four Loko, a brisk black market has sprung up on the internet. Twelve-packs readily available, at inflated prices...
View ArticleU.S. Government Proposes In-Car Alcohol Detection Device To Stop Drunk Driving
This is sure to divide opinion nationwide. Is it a great idea to stop potentially homicidal behavior, or Big Brother-like governmental restriction on personal freedom? The in-vehicle Driver Alcohol...
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This Is What Global Alcohol Consumption Looks Like (Map)
Who knew? Moldovans are the heaviest drinkers in the world, downing more than 18 liters/person every year. And the United States is well behind Europe, with most Europeans drinking nearly double as...
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Beer To Be Classified as Alcohol for First Time in Russia
Andrew Osborn writes in the Telegraph: The beverage is technically classified as a foodstuff for now, an anomaly that has allowed producers to avoid a sweeping new crackdown on alcohol advertising and...
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Imagine Free Beer At Your Office, But You Are Recorded For How Much You Drink…
Photo: Strom Carlson (CC) Ryan Flinn reports for Bloomberg: At Yelp Inc.’s San Francisco headquarters, a keg refrigerator provides a never-ending supply of beer to employees, letting them drink as much...
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Too Much Alcohol May Cause Cancer
Photo: André Karwath aka Aka (CC) Just when you thought that drinking a few glasses of red wine every day was going to prolong your life comes this report in the British Medical Journal that it raises...
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Police Warn Of Growing Teen ‘Vodka Tampon’ Use
Time to check in on the latest youth trends: teens (both girls and boys) are increasingly using liquor-soaked tampons as a novel and stealthy means of getting drunk. A number of Facebook pages have...
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Can Alcohol Help the Brain Remember? Science Now Says So!
Via ScienceDaily: The common view that drinking is bad for learning and memory isn’t wrong, says neurobiologist Hitoshi Morikawa, but it highlights only one side of what ethanol consumption does to the...
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Royal Virility Performance: The First Beer Brewed With Viagra
Royal Virility Performance by BrewDog. (BrewDog.com) Because there isn’t enough alcohol and testosterone-influenced shennanigans at happy hour, BrewDog sells a beer laced with Viagra. Via FOX News:...
View ArticleIf It’s Not Scottish It’s Crap: Scotland Toasts New Whisky-Powered Bioenergy...
Nuff said. More power to alternative energy efforts. Kirsty Scott reports in the Guardian: It is the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, and now whisky is to be used to create electricity for...
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Over 570 Australians Arrested In Police Crackdown On “Booze-Fueled Violence...
Marissa Calligeros writes for Brisbane Times: More than 570 people, including seven juveniles, were arrested in Queensland as part of a two-day police blitz targeting booze-fuelled violence and...
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Old Drinkers Protected Against Dementia
But you have to reach 75, life is not fair. Richard Alleyne writes in the Telegraph: Scientists found pensioners aged 75 or over who like a daily pint or glass of wine are helping to stave off...
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Legal Moonshine On Sale In South
If you’re hankering for some moonshine, head on down to South Carolina, where it’s finally legal, reports Harriet McLeod for Reuters: Two entrepreneurs are taking advantage of new micro-distillery laws...
View ArticleHow To Tell When You’re Drunk
Melinda Beck asks “How much alcohol does it take to get intoxicated?” for the Wall Street Journal: Many people figure a few beers at a ballgame or a couple of glasses of wine with dinner won’t put them...
View Article1000-Year-Old Aztec Brew Is Hottest Beverage In Mexico
As quoted by Reuters, Mexico City Museum Director, Salvador Zarco tells us that “Among the Aztecs the drink was reserved for the nobles and priests for ceremonial use and for pregnant women.” I have...
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