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Volume 110: November 19, 2012

Youth who 'pre-party' more likely to have unprotected sex

November 12, 2012They call it "pre-drinking," "pre-partying" or "pre-funking," and it usually involves chugging cheap alcoholicdrinks before heading out to a bar, club or sporting event.While addiction experts estimate that 65 percent to 75 percent of college-age youths engage in such boozybehavior, a Swiss study concludes that such "pre-loaded" evenings are far more likely to end in blackouts,unprotected sex, unplanned drug use or injury.

"Pre-drinking is a pernicious drinking pattern," said coauthor Florian Labhart, a researcher at Addiction InfoSwitzerland, in Lausanne. "Excessive consumption and adverse consequences are not simply related to the typeof people who pre-drink, but rather to the practice of pre-drinking itself."

The study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, examinedthe drinking habits of more than 250 Swiss students.

For five weeks, the test subjects were surveyed via Internet and cellphone text messages. Each Thursday, Fridayand Saturday night, the students were questioned hourly about how many drinks they had just consumed.Researchers found that when students drank prior to going to a bar or club, they drank more than they wouldotherwise. On average, pre-drinking students consumed seven drinks, and students who drank only at a bar orevent consumed just over four drinks.This increased drinking was associated with a greater likelihood of blackouts, hangovers, absences from work orschool or alcohol poisoning. Pre-drinkers were also found to engage more often in unintended drug use, unsafesex, drunken driving or violent behavior.The study found that while students who drank only at a bar or club stood an 18 percent chance of experiencingnegative consequences, students who drank beforehand stood a 24 percent chance of seeing their evening end in

mishap.To read more, click this link:http://www.omaha.com/article/20121112/LIVEWELL16/121119888/1161Source: Livewell Nebraska

United Kingdom: Man dies after drinking "fake" vodka

November 12, 2012An inquest has heard that a man from Worthing has died from methanol poisoning.A man died after drinking what is thought to have been fake alcoholAdam Bohm, 49, was found dead in his flat and the inquest into his death heard that three bottles of vodka werefound in his home. The bottles are believed to be counterfeit and the source of the methanol.Drinkers have been warned that counterfeit alcohol can be a serious risk to their health and to stay away fromany alcohol they suspect of being counterfeit.A spokesman for NHS Sussex said: "Fake alcohol is normally produced using cheap types of alcohol which can

seriously put your health at risk. Often this can include cleaning fluids, nail polish remover and automobilescreen wash, as well as methanol which is used in antifreeze and some fuels."Drinking alcohol containing these types of chemicals can cause sickness and vomiting, abdominal pain,drowsiness and dizziness."It can also lead to kidney or liver problems, coma or permanent blindness, and even death."To read more, click this link:http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2012/11/man-dies-after-drinking-fake-vodka/Source: The Spirit Business

City Council: Novato should be an 'alcopop free zone'

November 13, 2012The Novato City Council Tuesday night joined Marin County supervisors and San Rafael's City Council inendorsing an effort to make the region an "alcopop free zone" by passing a resolution urging retailers to eschew

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sales of flavored malt and related alcoholic beverages that appeal to youth.The council voted unanimously in favor of the move after more than 15 teens and adults spoke in its favor to thecrowd of about 60 people at the meeting. Representatives of the Novato Youth Center, the Novato YouthPartnership, the Healthy Marin Partnership and Healthy Novato, among others, urged council members to voteyes."I felt good that they agreed with us," said Alexis Simon, an 18-year-old student at Nova Independent StudyHigh School and a Novato resident. "I have a younger sibling and it will be safer for her to socialize withoutbeing pressured by Novato kids to drink along.""We're happy to see you here participating in the democratic process," Mayor Denise Athas told the young

people who filed to the front of the packed room, one after another, to urge the council members to pass theresolution. Compliance with the resolution is voluntary, though several Novato businesses have alreadyindicated willingness to cooperate, according to Don Carney, a spokesman for the Novato Blue RibbonCoalition for Youth."Alcopop sells for $1.45 per container," Megan Paddack, a San Marin High School senior, told thecouncilmembers. "It is dangerous to our community."Alcopops include a variety of ready-to-go alcoholic drinks, such as Smirnoff Ice, Skyy Blue, StolichnayaCitrona, Bacardi Silver, Captain Morgan Gold, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Blast, Tilt, Four Loko and JeremiahWeed Spiked Cola. The beverages are often brightly packaged and sweetly flavored like soda pop, and aresometimes super-sized and super-charged with alcohol, with one can the alcoholic equivalent of four beers.More than 10 million American youth under the age of 21 drink alcohol, and over a million of them are bingedrinkers, according to the American Medical Association. "A majority of teens 17-18 years old (51 percent) andmany teens 14-16 years old (35 percent) have tried alcopops, compared to less than a quarter of adults (24percent)," the association reported."Alcopops are a predatory product. Combined with driving or drugs, they can permanently impact not only thelives of the people who consume them but those of others as well. We need to attack this problem at the sourceby getting this product off the shelves and out of our young peoples' lives," said Hart Fogel, a freshman at SanFrancisco University High School and a Mill Valley resident.To read more, click this link:http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_21991379/city-council-novato-should-be-an-alcopop-freeSource: Marin Independent Journal

Impulsive college women at risk of drinking problems: Study

November 8, 2012Female college students who act impulsively when they're distressed are at increased risk of developing adrinking problem, a new study suggests.

Alcohol dependence puts college women at danger for a number of negative consequences, including poorerschool performance and increased risk of sexual assault, accidental injury and even death, according to the

researchers.The study included 319 women (235 drinkers and 84 nondrinkers) in their first semester at a large university in

the southeastern United States. The participants' drinking behavior, alcohol dependence symptoms and

impulsive behavior traits were assessed by the researchers, and the students were followed for three months.Negative urgency (a trait in which a person tends to act rashly when having negative emotions) and lack of

deliberation (a trait in which a person acts without thinking) both predicted increases in alcohol dependence

symptoms in the college students, the study authors found.The largest increase in alcohol dependence symptoms was seen in women who had high negative urgency and

said they wanted to drink to change their emotions (either to enhance positive feelings or get rid of negative

feelings), according to study corresponding author Monika Kardacz Stojek, a graduate student in the department

of psychology at the University of Georgia, and colleagues.To read more click this link:http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/11/08/impulsive-college-women-at-risk-of-drinking-problems-studySource: US News and World Report

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