The Wall Street Journal reports new-drug revenue fell from $11.8 billion in 2005 to $4.3 billion last year. The author argues drugmakers are now courting alcoholics and addicts as a market, promoting addiction as a brain disease and a 'dual diagnosis' with mental illness.
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Does drinking alcoholic beverages provide any benefit at all?
Businessweek said two or three drinks a day helped adults outlive teetotalers, but the study behind it found only an association: non-drinkers were 49% more likely to die over 20 years, heavy drinkers 42% more likely than moderate ones. It was observational, so it cannot establish cause.
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Is Drinking Too Much Funny? This Humorist Said Yes
Cartoonist John Callahan, an alcoholic and quadriplegic, died last week at 59. The piece recalls how his 1989 autobiography and his cartoons made jokes of wheelchair users, 12-step groups and much else the culture was then handling gingerly.
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Underage Drinking Sends More Teens to Hospital on Fourth of July
Emergency department visits tied to underage drinking nearly doubled over the 2008 Fourth of July weekend, a SAMHSA report found: 938 visits a day across the three-day weekend against 502 on an average July day. Officials link 5,000 deaths a year in people under 21 to alcohol.
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Teen girls drinking may raise breast cancer risk
A survey of 6,899 girls aged 18 to 27 linked one drink a day to a 50 percent higher risk of benign breast disease, and drinking six or seven days a week to 5.5 times the risk. The authors suggest early drinking may raise later breast cancer risk.
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Drinking in Excess Associated with Increased Risk for Metabolic Syndrome
Among 1,529 current drinkers aged 20 to 84 in the 1999-2002 NHANES, those exceeding the Dietary Guidelines or binge drinking faced higher metabolic syndrome risk. Lead author Amy Fan notes that 58% of U.S. drinkers report drinking above the guidelines.
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