Word: alcoholic
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...former group, the most prevalent afflictions were alcohol abuse at 20.4 percent and personality disorders at 17.7 percent, researchers found...
...study concluded that although college students exhibit a much greater dependency on alcohol than their comparison group, they are less likely to be diagnosed as drug-abusive, nicotine dependent, or bipolar...
Blanco, who is also the associate director of the Anxiety and Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, said he thinks the college student group exhibits a greater incidence of alcohol-related disorders because of alcohol’s availability on campuses...
...with our report, there are two important words to distinguish between: correlation and causation. This report doesn't say, nor would Common Sense ever suggest, that media is the cause of all society's ills, or the sole cause of childhood obesity or risky sexual behavior or smoking or alcohol use among teens. But it is a significant contributing factor. That's different from saying it's the sole cause. And a very important thing to say up front is that we're not anti-media. I'm a first-amendment law professor at Stanford. Our motto is sanity...
...alcohol abuse or dependence...