enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. File:Alcohol - its use and abuse (IA b28088293).pdf - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alcohol_-_its_use_and...

    This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

  3. File:The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (UKSI 2001-3998).pdf

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Misuse_of_Drugs...

    This file is licensed under the United Kingdom Open Government Licence v3.0. You are free to: copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

  4. Alcohol abuse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_abuse

    The causes of alcohol abuse are complex and multi-faceted. Alcohol abuse is related to economic and biological origins and is associated with adverse health consequences. [45] Peer pressure influences individuals to abuse alcohol; however, most of the influence of peers is due to inaccurate perceptions of the risks of alcohol abuse. [48]

  5. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Council_on_the...

    Its terms of reference, [1] according to the Act, are as follows: . to keep under review the situation in the United Kingdom with respect to drugs which are being or appear to them likely to be misused and of which the misuse is having or appears to them capable of having harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem, and to give to any one or more of the Ministers, where either ...

  6. Alcoholism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism

    Based on combined data in the US from SAMHSA's 2004–2005 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health, the rate of past-year alcohol dependence or misuse among persons aged 12 or older varied by level of alcohol use: 44.7% of past month heavy drinkers, 18.5% binge drinkers, 3.8% past month non-binge drinkers, and 1.3% of those who did not drink ...

  7. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol

    The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

  8. Alcoholic hallucinosis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_hallucinosis

    Alcohol hallucinosis is a rather uncommon alcohol-induced psychotic disorder almost exclusively seen in chronic alcoholics who have many consecutive years of severe and heavy drinking during their lifetime. [3] Alcoholic hallucinosis develops about 12 to 24 hours after the heavy drinking stops suddenly, and can last for days.

  9. Alcohol and health - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_health

    Alcohol education is the practice of disseminating information about the effects of alcohol on health, as well as society and the family unit. [72] It was introduced into the public schools by temperance organizations such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the late 19th century. [ 72 ]