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		<title>Not Thinking Too Clearly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Kalman Recent studies demonstrate that chronic cigarette smoking compounds both structural and functional alcohol-induced brain impairment. Compared to their nonsmoking counterparts, alcoholic smokers have smaller temporal, cortical and total gray matter volumes, larger frontal white matter volumes and poorer cerebral perfusion. Research has also found lower concentrations of the metabolite N-acetylaspartate in frontal white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off the reservation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Legislation in Nebraska that would curtail alcohol purchases to residents of a dry Indian reservation has stalled in a key committee whose members have received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the alcohol industry, according to state records, The New York Times reported. At least seven of the eight senators on the General Affairs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicating the troops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a small but growing number of cases across the nation, lawyers are blaming the U.S. military’s heavy use of psychotropic drugs for their clients’ aberrant behavior and related health problems, The Los Angeles Times has reported. Such defenses have rarely gained traction in military or civilian courtrooms, but military psychiatrists and court-martial judges are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery In This Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does the economy affect people in recovery? Studies show that alcohol sales skyrocket during recessions and that people experiencing financial stress tend to drink more. There are indications that bad times lead more young people into selling drugs. Statistics show that drug and alcohol abusers are more likely to be unemployed. And it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcoholism &#8211; defined?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our May/June, 2012 issue, Dr. Joseph Nowinski asks &#8220;Are You An Almost Alcoholic?&#8221; Dr. Nowinski educates us on some important differentiations for medical diagnoses when it comes to alcoholism but it&#8217;s important to remember, at least within the framework of Alcoholics Anonymous, that the only requirement for membership is a desire to quit drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You An “Almost” Alcoholic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Joseph Nowinski •    A father who falls asleep on the couch after having several drinks three or four days a week, thereby missing out on time with his kids and wife. •    A sales executive who likes to “sip” scotch on the rocks from the time he finishes his dinner to the time he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying booze online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from the University of North Carolina shows that not only can minors buy alcohol online easily &#8230; but they don&#8217;t even need to have fake identification! Read more]]></description>
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		<title>It’s All About You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted with permission from Tony Murphy.]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment of Truce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY BENJAMIN CHEEVER Despite more purple eyeliner than even the most crass mortician would apply, I could see that this beautiful young woman was still very much alive. “Hello, Ben,” she said, and with a familiarity that would have been offensive, were it not so clearly authentic. I had no idea who this person was. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fit For Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Suzanne Riss Together: What role can exercise play in recovery? Jolene Matthews: Exercising can build self-esteem and produce a natural high by releasing endorphins. It puts the focus on a positive goal and deflects from obsessing over a substance. For me, dancing helps, doing Zumba (a dance fitness program), or spinning to get my [...]]]></description>
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