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The conventionalisms of drugs, sex, love and alcohol

It is funny how two unconnected pieces of research can relate to the same topic mixing youth, drugs, mental illness, emasculation and risk taking. Both studies are of course full of conventionalisms and made the reader think that nothing new has been brought to the eternal debate between the good or bad effects of drug taking or the eternal role that the hypersexualised attractive woman plays upon the innocent man who cannot resists her charms.

    Lethal combinations of sex drugs and alcohol

     Alcohol and drugs are factors leading to risky sex. The most common consequences are usually, unintended pregnancy in the case of women, sexually transmitted infections, sexual violence and other adverse outcomes. Drinking and taking drugs in sexual situations are mostly aimed at sensation seeking and pleasure stimulation. For this reason it is not strange that having sex without a condom or having numerous sex partners become a priority for those looking for new experiences.

      Living with an ex alcohlic

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      Living with an ex alcoholic.

       

      I am so proud of the person I live with as they’re a recovering alcoholic. It has taught me so much having this person around. He used to have to have a drink inside him in order to feel confident when communicating and every chance he got to drink he was drinking.

        The problem with energy drinks

         The increasing consumption of caffeinated energy drinks and alcospeed has been raising concern among health professionals, authorities and even senior figures of the Episcopal Church of Scotland have been publicly criticising the consumption of the popular Buckfast wine, labelling it as anti-Christian. The reason is no other than the effects that the tonic wine seem to cause due to its high concentration of caffeine, equivalent to six cans of coke.

          "Three glasses a day, for good health and lively blood"

          In the wake of alarming new research about alcohol consumption in Scotland, the Right Rev Bob Gillies, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church has accused the Benedictine Monks in Devon who first brewed Buckfast tonic wine of betraying Christian values. 

          The fortified wine which had previously been marketed with the slogan “Three small glasses a day, for good health and lively blood” is 15% proof and a 75cl bottle has approximately the same amount of caffeine as six cans of cola. 

            Girl hospitalised after 18 shots of tequila during contest

            A 17-year-old girl was hospitalised in Cordoba, Argentina with an alcoholic coma after taking 18 measures of tequila in a drinking competition. The girl became intoxicated in a discotheque where she and her classmates celebrated an end of year party.

              Cannabis as a substitute for alcohol

              A new study by a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, is pointing to cannabis substitution in place of more harmful drugs as a way of combating substance misuse.

              Amanda Reiman from the University carried out the study at Berkeley Patient's Group, a medical cannabis dispensary. The study is published on BioMed Central's open access Harm Reduction Journal and the press release details the results of Reiman's work.

                Is it possible to drink a bottle of vodka in 20 seconds?

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                According to this video recorded in a Russian school bathroom the answer is yes! In the video, we can see a group of young friends who encourage one of them to drink the entire bottle of vodka in one go. And he does it in just 20 seconds with his mates applauding the feat achieved. Later in the classroom, we can see the effects: the boy lying on his desk, with his dirty clothes because of his vomit, wobbling and falling on the floor while his classmates laugh at him.

                  Chinese Communist Party Secretary dies from official binge-drinking

                  Submitted by mej-juana on Tue, 10/11/2009 - 13:17

                  Today many British newspapers are reporting on the death of Shen Hao, 46, the communist Party Secretary of Fengyang county's Xiaogang village, who died on Friday after an official binge-drinking-prone banquet. Mr Shen is now the third victim of a new tradition of lush business events in which drinking heavily is the way to prove status and engage in conversation. Previous victims were Jin Guoqing, deputy director of water resources in Xinzhou district (47) and Guo Shizhong, a family planning official from Xinyang, Central China's Henan province.

                    A Native American woman tells us about her recovery from alcoholism

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