alcoholism
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The Best Drink to Order at a Work Function Is the One You Don’t Like
Drinking with co-workers is fraught with potential missteps. Beyond getting sloppy, booze can make you act in ways and do things you’re not proud of. This isn’t such a big deal among friends, but it can have pretty dire consequences once you add co-workers and bosses into the mix.
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5 Things Science Actually Hasn’t Proven Are Healthy or Unhealthy
When it comes to our health, we like definitive answers — there’s a lot on the line, after all. We are constant victims of personal biases, and we should be most sceptical of the things we’re most sure of — but we can’t necessarily look to others for the truth either. Crowdsourced conventional wisdom about…
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How to Lower Your Teen’s Risk of Addiction
We don’t want to believe that our adolescent children will abuse any addictive substances, but we also know that it’s increasingly likely they will as they get older. By 12th grade, about two-thirds of students will have tried alcohol, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; nearly half of all high school students…