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Sleep Deprivation may Lead to Mental Illness
The phrase, “We can sleep when we’re dead!”, is a phrase that is being thrown around all the time by teenagers. As much as teens and young adults may want to believe that they can function properly without sleep, new studies are showing that being sleep-deprived may lead to mental illness. You might ask yourself, what exactly constitutes sleep deprivation? People who sleep less than five hours fall within a high-risk category for sleep deprivation and a higher probability of becoming mentally ill. Clinically speaking, people who rest for eight to nine hours per night are considered to have normal sleeping patterns. One of the things keeping people from getting the recommended rest is modern technology. Young adults between the ages of 17 and 24 are becoming more and more distracted by … Read entire article »
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More & More Women Drinking During Pregnancy
Drinking around children when they are young is a big NO-NO in the parenting world but now, women are drinking while they are in their first trimester of pregnancy. Believe it or not, a woman named Donna is drinking wine while she is pregnant and says that her therapists recommend this. WHAT!? “My therapist recommends wine [for stress],” she says. Cheerfully Donna exclaims, “I’ve had two glasses in the last nine days.” The debate here is strong and both sides have good facts to back them up. Some moms are totally against the fact that drinking a very small amount of wine is sick and disturbing. “Drinking can only lead to more and more drinking, causing the baby inside to suffer from the alcohol affects as well”, states a worried mom. Also, a … Read entire article »
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The Mystery of Beer Goggles
So we’ve all heard of beer goggles, the phenomenon when alcohol makes someone who may not be attractive appear beautiful. I think I can assume that pretty much everyone, or at least any alcoholic, can say that they have been the victim of beer goggles. Alcohol reduces our inhibitions, dulling our ability to make clear choices. Along with this, it distorts our ability to recognize asymmetrical faces. It has been established in previous research that those with symmetrical faces are preferred and found more attractive. To find if alcohol actually interferes with the ability to distinguish faces, Lewis Halset of Roehampton University in London and his colleagues designed an experiment involving images of faces that were tinkered with to make them perfectly symmetrical or subtly asymmetrical. The participants were university student … Read entire article »
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What about the Kids!!
A study examined over 800 kids, ages 10 to 24, to compare the influence of delinquency behavior in late childhood development between low and middle income families. The study found that financial status does play a role in delinquency problems: crime, alcohol use disorders and risky sex behaviors; and an early intervention for an adolescent may help avoid such problems. Teens that came from a low income background were two times more likely to participate in early sexual activities; age 11, and more likely to contribute to early delinquency; age 10, than those that came from a middle class background. On the other hand, middle class youth were 1.5 times more likely to get into alcohol use; age 10, than the youth from lower-income backgrounds. Due to early participation in aforementioned … Read entire article »
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Alcohol Being Advertised in Kids Magazines
According to a new study, young Americans’ exposure to alcohol ads in magazines declined 48% between 2001 and 2008. An analysis of magazine ads found that 325 alcohol brands advertised in 2008. 16 of the brands accounted for half the ads placed in publications that were more likely to be seen by teens than adults. Magazines serve as a major source of advertising for alcohol companies. In 2008 it was found that 78% of alcohol advertisements occurred in publications more likely to be read by people ages from 12-20 than by those who are 21 or older. David H. Jernijan, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY), is outraged that alcohol companies continue to target those who cannot legally dink. Jernijan believes there should be stricter standards to … Read entire article »
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Locked Up But Not Loaded: Sober Inside The Lynwood Correctional Facility
A couple of years ago, on a steady diet of booze and sedatives, waking up in my car with pee all over me and the seat, I would have laughed in disbelief at the thought that one day I would have to clean up the wreckage of my alcohol and drug abuse. I choose drugs over everything and everybody. I was reckless. The scariest part came when I unconsciously chose drugs over life itself, … Read entire article »
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