Word: alcoholizing
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...their admonitions about responsible drinking, it turns out that older adults aren't as good as young ones about knowing when to stop. After drinking the same amount of alcohol as their younger counterparts, older adults are not only more impaired than younger ones, but less likely to believe they...
...study published in this month's issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, researchers recruited 42 adults: half were between the ages of 50 and 74, and half were aged 25 to 35. The participants were given either alcoholic drinks - roughly equivalent to a couple of glasses of wine - or placebo beverages, then asked to perform tasks designed to test their motor skills. They were also asked to rate their level of intoxication on a scale of 1 to 10. While the older people were more impaired by the alcohol, they also consistently underestimated their drunkenness. That...
...discussed on the news daily, and then asked the audience, “Do you ever see the suicides? Do you ever read about them?” He also emphasized the many statistics on prevalence of mental health issues, pointing out that some people believe that drugs and alcohol are a lifestyle people have chosen. “Is this something someone would want to choose for themselves?” he asked the audience. Often, teenagers who suffer from mental illness are less successful in school, and wind up dropping out and falling into drugs and alcohol, Kennedy...
Thankfully, we found these buttoned-down lab rats did in fact have their priorities straight—they were focusing on alcohol and mountains of Doritos. The FAS Center for Systems Biology, a collaborative research unit whose members occupy Northwest, holds happy hours every Friday at 5 pm, and we were lucky enough to stumble upon a coagulated mass of biology researchers “socializing” as they knocked back Coronas and forgot that their shoelaces were still tied (more on the Northwest scene after the jump...
...paused sagely. "I think it's going to be fun." After all, alcohol never impaired anyone, including professors...right? Right...