Binge drinking link to rapes rise
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Police say excessive drinking is a factor in a rise in the number of rapes and sexual assaults over the last year.
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Girls with boyfriends two or more years older are more than twice as likely to drink, according to a new national survey.
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Science & environment: Warning by scientists after study reveals toll from accidents, drugs and alcohol.
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NEW YORK  - Mounting evidence shows that  the still-maturing teenage brain is particularly susceptible to  damage from heavy drinking, according to a report published  Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Lab experiments show that cells that line the mouth become more susceptible to infection with HIV (news - web sites) when they&#39;re exposed to alcohol.
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MORE police are be deployed during full moons after officers made a link between the level of violent crime and the lunar cycle.   Full moons and paydays were identified as particular times when aggressive behaviour rose among drinkers in pubs and nightclubs in Brighton and Hove.
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Australians have a reputation as big drinkers but a new report has found many can not handle their hangovers, with Australians claiming more than 2.6 million sick days a year as a result of a night on the booze.
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[Health India]: London, Nov 29 : A study conducted by Professor Morton Gronbeck, from the Centre for Alcohol Research in Copenhagen, Denmark, has revealed that binge-drinkers are more at risk of developing a beer belly compared to those who drink the same
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There are 900 sex offenders living in Northern Ireland - an increase of 300 since June - it is revealed.
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Drinking too much alcohol may lead to abnormal rhythm of the atria, the upper chambers of the heart, according to a report from Denmark.
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Updated methods for calculating alcohol consumption classify many more people as drinking too much.
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Excessive drinking is worse among teenage girls than boys, says new research by the European School Survey Project. A survey of 2,000 15 and 16 year-olds found 26 per cent of boys and 29 per cent of girls
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Far more babies may be damaged in the womb as a result of their mother's drinking habits than was assumed, the British Medical Association warned today.
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Figures reveal a doubling in the number of people in Scotland diagnosed with alcoholic liver disease.
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NEW YORK  - Previous reports have suggested  that alcohol use helps cancers grow and now, new research  offers a possible explanation for this phenomenon.
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Three or more drinks a day, whether  beer, wine or spirits, boost a woman&#39;s risk of breast cancer as  much as smoking a pack of cigarettes, U.S. researchers said on  Thursday.
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Inebriated honeybees could give better insight into alcohol&#39;s effects on human behaviour, according to a study by US researchers.