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10/19/04
Alcoholism
a Disease or a Moral Failing
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In the old
days, people used to debate whether alcoholism was a disease or a
moral failing. Now it is abundantly clear that not only is it a
disease, but one with a strong genetic component. At least 50
percent of the vulnerability to alcoholism is
now believed to be triggered by genetics, and the
other 50 percent by environment, such as living in a
culture where heavy drinking is endemic.
12/19/00
- Is Moderate Drinking the Answer
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Until four months ago,
Paul Robert, a hardworking 42 year -old Connecticut businessman, would get
home from work and knock back six drinks a night -
45 drinks a week. Sometimes wine, sometimes beer, sometimes the
hard stuff.
11/15/99
- Here's to your health, the benefits of drinking outweigh the
risks, but only within limits
- On Thursday, the French will go nuts. We know this
because they go nuts every year on the third Thursday of November,
the day the latest crop of just-off-the-vine wines hit the market.
04/05/99
- Alcohol's insidious grip
- Barbara Raymond, now in her mid-50's, started
drinking hard as a 15-year-old in Abington. At the time, she had no
idea why, though she later linked it to depression. She made her
first suicide attempt at 16. At 18, in the throes of alcoholic
amnesia, she married a man she'd known for two weeks. He turned out
to be an alcoholic and a batterer who broke her arm and gave her ``a
bunch of bruises'' over the years. She rarely sought care, she says:
``I was too ashamed.''
01/08/96
- Drink up - or not? studies in women are at odds on alcohol's
risks and benefits
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Last May, a huge Harvard study
of more than 85,000 women showed that moderate drinking -- about one
drink a day -- lowers the overall risk of death, without apparently
raising the odds of dying from breast cancer. Six weeks later,
another big study -- of more than 16,000 women -- came to a more
sobering conclusion: Over a lifetime, even one drink a day may
slightly raise breast cancer risk.
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