Sentences with phrase «on alcohol as»

Done with blackouts, horrible hangovers, an inability to focus, low energy, and an overreliance on alcohol as my coping mechanism for low confidence, stress, and anxiety.

Even when the investigators removed the scans of 16 participants who were dependent on alcohol as well as cocaine, the link between cocaine use and brain volume loss remained.

This school is one part of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, an interdisciplinary project which engages in wide - ranging research, publishes the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol as well as a variety of books and articles, and maintains the «Classified Abstract Archives of the Alcohol Literature» with over 10,000 entries on punch cards for automatic retrieval by topic.

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It scored 97 out of 100 in Murray's review, and he described it as having «one of the most wonderful noses on this planet,» referring to the alcohol's aroma.

A global economic slowdown hasn't had much impact on this resilient market as people continue to turn to alcohol in good times and bad.

They also drink more alcohol on average than women of all races, as well as more than men who are not white.

The challenge for companies like Heineken is turning the perception of a zero - alcohol beer as a «distress purchase» on its head.

The beverage menu will feature beer and wine, as well as mixed alcohol freezes that offer a fast - food twist on boozy beverages.

Looking back on it, it would be tempting to dismiss Mike Stephenson's epiphany as the by - product of what can happen when entrepreneurs and alcohol mix.

Last year Maker's Mark drew brickbats after it announced that it would reduce the proof on its signature expression from 90 to 84 (proof is twice the alcohol percentage) as a way to make supplies last (it backed off).

My first thought on reading this was that various alcohols could work as inhibitors.

Buffalo Wings, for instance, implemented price increases on alcohol in the third quarter to help offset hourly wage hikes and other rising costs such as health insurance in states such as California and New York.

In the United States, most consumption taxes are levied by states and local governments (as retail sales taxes), although the federal government does levy some selective consumption taxes, called «excise taxes,» on items such as alcohol, tobacco products, and gasoline.

Of every dollar a full - service restaurant brings in, it spends roughly a third on food and alcohol; another third on salaries, wages and benefits; up to 10 cents on rent; and up to 20 cents on other costs such as marketing, according to studies by restaurant associations.

A more immediate barrier for Constellation is that pot is still illegal under federal law, and as an alcohol seller, the company relies on the federal government for permits and licenses.

Then they go «all in» on the church and god concept, same as they did with drugs and alcohol.

They could go to the commissary on base to buy alcohol to numb the pain as many do.

And since some 40 % of scripture regarding alcohol has a positive view on drinking it, then i don't see a problem here (as opposed to the 10 % that is against drinking and the 50 % that is neutral).

Then they go «all in» on the church and god concept, same as tehy did with drugs and alcohol.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

America doesn't need anymore reason for blokes to plot against us and you're just pouring alcohol on an already burning fire.Anyways, as much as I am angry and hurt by this, I agree with this scholar - we can print more and more and as Muslim we need to set the standard of rising up and REMAINING calm and not be the stereotype the world thinks we are of angry backward water buffalos.

In September, Southern California's Biola University — founded as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1908 — lifted its ban on alcohol and tobacco for of - age graduate students, noting that the changes «shift the responsibility of conduct from the institution to the individual.»

You're as dependent on the crutch of religion as you ever were on the crutch of alcohol.

Also, as an atheist, it is ironic to say the least to call on an external «power» when what you are trying to do is break the external power (alcohol) that is ruining your life — swapping one addiction for another is a pretty poor deal long term.

In their attempt to grow in holiness by carefully observing rules about food and purity» the Pharisees may have kept themselves apart from ordinary people, rather as some vegetarians are reluctant to eat with those who have chosen meat, or as the early Methodists, with their stress on temperance, kept themselves apart from those who drank alcohol.

In fact, the very insistence on staying completely off any form of alcohol is seen as one of its biggest drawbacks.

Then, as persons accustomed to depend on alcohol for sleep, when deprived of it, are apt to suffer from insomnia, I should add suggestions as to sleep and rest.

Researchers can quickly obtain abstracts as well as a bibliography on any topic which has been discussed in the scientific alcohol literature of the world.

Although their particular tactics are enormously diverse, many fundamentalist groups impose creedal tests on their followers, many have rites of passage such as conversion experiences that demarcate entry into the community, and many enforce conformity in such matters as dress, sexuality and the use of alcohol.

Most people in the world today believe that God expects them to perform a wide variety of religious practices, such as going to church, attending mass, tithing, going to confession, giving up tobacco and alcohol, and a list of other rules that are variously taught in churches and on television.

I kind of think it is the least we could do for them seeing as how we stole their land, gave them blankets covered in disease, hooked them on alcohol, massacred the buffalos, do I need to go on?!? Oh, I forgot the whole slaughtering them for their lands thing.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Four out of 10 evangelical leaders said they do drink alcohol socially, but many added comments such as «in moderation,» «never in excess,» «on special occasions,» «occasionally,» «rarely» and «infrequently.»

These are people just like me - wasted but willing to start over if someone will give us the chance to go on living, to bear the void (with faith as our guide) in an alcohol and drug free fashion.

For the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and job.

About a third of Americans (36 %) who identified as evangelical said they sometimes drank alcohol, with adults who attend church once a week or more less likely to drink at all (38 %) than those who attend once or twice a month (53 %), only on religious holidays (55 %), or rarely (59 %).

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

Straus and Bacon, for example, in their study of over 15,000 college students, found that the incidence of abstention from alcohol on the part of the parents decreased in each category as they moved from lower to higher family income.

On the third level these forms of anxiety contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction in the sense that they become more and more pronounced as the alcoholic continues to try to satisfy his religious needs by means of alcohol.

It might be their guilt, their alcohol addiction — whatever it may be, it is often something they wish to hold on to as a way of memorialising their baby.

By the time I was twenty - one, I had never tasted alcohol, I had finished college, I was married, and I had decided on the priesthood as my vocation and career.

Some involve substances introduced into the body, such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, caffeine, salt and sugar — substances that can be mood - altering — but others involve a process: extreme preoccupation with relationships, money, sex, religion, gambling, romance, violence, the arms race, television and so on.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

In From Ashes to Glory, McCartney speaks frankly about his failures as a husband and father, his struggles with alcohol, his temper and his daughter's two illegitimate children sired by two different players on his football team.

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On the other hand, the non-temperance churches, partly as a reaction to the temperance churches, have tended to overlook the realistic dangers of the use of alcohol in our neurotic culture, to treat drinking as if there were no moral problem involved, and to ignore the seamy side of drinking.

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Early in Sunday's 9:15 a.m. service, Executive Pastor Shane Duffey announced that Noble had been removed as pastor on July 1... after Noble «had made unfortunate choices,» and that the board members had confronted Noble on numerous occasions regarding his use of alcohol.

The newly named President's Ad Hoc Group on University Climate and Culture has created work groups that will do no more than address the obvious symptoms of the sexual malaise, such as alcohol consumption, and rehash tired methods to prevent sexual violence.

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