Sentences with phrase «than alcohol use»

Dysfunction in the liver can also lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which occurs when fat is deposited (steatosis) in the liver due to metabolic dysfunction rather than alcohol use.

In fact, the researchers found that posting about alcohol use on social media was actually a stronger predictor of alcohol problems than alcohol use was.

Not exact matches

Because alcohol consumption is more harmful to people than marijuana use, but the two are substitutes, legalizing pot will lead customers to shift to the better of the two choices.

These costs seem particularly exorbitant when dealing with the drug marijuana, as it is widely used, and is likely no more harmful than currently legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol.

Religion isn't nullified by abuse any more than the use alcohol is nullified because it can be abused.

One of the reasons that smoking and drinking alcohol are so much more prevalent than drug use is precisely because drug use is illegal.

But Betel strongly believes in advocating abstinence in drug and alcohol treatment rather than tolerating continued substance use.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

If he used alcohol or other drugs, it was not to any greater extent than those with whom he spent, but did not share, that New Year's Eve.

In 2013, GlobalPlus editor David Briggs noted that fast - growing Presbyterian Church USA congregations are more likely to prohibit smoking and drinking alcohol than they used to be.

Alcohol is well known to be addictive and has caused untold destruction, yet taboos against its use arguably do more damage, with less resulting moderation, than do appeals to reason and an understanding of the risks.

Some students prefer to use «problem drinking» rather than alcoholism in describing this non-addicted excessive drinking, since there is apparently no loss of the ability to control the intake of alcohol.

What do you think of this idea — Income the church receives that is used to help the poor, run homeless shelters, alcohol treatment programs and so on (rather than pay for church buildings and that sort of thing) would not be taxed?

I have found that using homemade vanilla extract from vodka and vanilla beans tasted much better than the extract from the store, much less alcohol - ly taste.

«It's a universal story, quite frankly, in alcohol, which is we're simply buying less alcohol than we used to but we're buying better,» said Nielsen executive director Michael Walton.

If you tolerate sugar alcohols like xylitol and erythritol well than you could also use these.

Oh, and in the interest of full disclosure, I used 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 1 1/4 cups of Turkish tea rather than 1 cup tea and 1/4 cup alcohol.

I was just using it as a metaphor for saying being on Alcohol is more dangerous than being high on weed

Instead of the original carbureted pushrod V - 8 of 350 horsepower, it uses a four - overhead - camshaft, fuel - injected engine — again in lightweight aluminum and again burning gasoline rather than racing alcohol.

They clean more than just baby and I have used them for everything — faces, hands, bottoms, items in the car — they have some alcohol on them so it is a good disinfectant and not harsh!

And a large 2013 study found that breastfeeding babies younger than 3 months who bed - shared with adults were five times more likely to die of SIDS, even when their parents were not using tobacco, alcohol, or drugs.

We know that anyone using drugs or alcohol are more likely to make unsafe sex choices than someone who is not using drugs or alcohol.

More than that could be a problem but it is not really known how excessive alcohol use impacts breast milk.

So a 34 year old primagravida with no past medical history other than allergic rhinitis and wisdom tooth extraction (with excellent hemostasis after the procedure), who is a vegetarian, exercised regularly throughout pregnancy, had normal glucose and blood pressure throughout pregnancy, good fetal heart tones, a singleton head down baby, no family history of significant birth issues, no alcohol or drug use at all, and a 7 - 8 pound estimated fetus at term is someone you'd take on as a home birth client?

In the United States, adolescents with divorced parents drink alcohol earlier and report higher alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and drug use than their peers.

More than two - thirds of high school students in Ontario used alcohol at least once over the previous year.

I should have have said that our «Co-sleeping with alcohol using parent» rate is considerably higher than anywhere else in the country.

More than 800 minors were arrested last year in New York for using fake identification to buy alcohol, breaking a record for the number of people arrested on that charge, according to New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo's website.

So of the two I would rather see large quantities of marijuana use than alcohol.

Since Governor Cuomo took office in 2011, both the number of farm based businesses manufacturing wine, beer, spirits and cider using ingredients grown in New York and the total number of manufacturers producing alcoholic beverages have more than doubled, spurred by state actions that support the alcohol beverage industry.

More than 46,120 people claimed incapacity benefit because of «behavioural disorders due to the use of alcohol» while 29,130 claimants cited drug use.

Using alcohol causes violence and induces crime, unlike cannabis, said the leader of Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party (alcohol causes violence and induces crime, unlike cannabis, said the leader of Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party (Alcohol Party (CISTA).

Examining more than 20 years of national data for U.S. adolescents, a research team led by Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside reports that adolescents have high prevalence of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, and concerning rates of suicide - related thoughts and behaviors.

People with all three symptoms of insomnia were 2.8 times more likely to die from a fatal injury than those with no insomnia symptoms, even after adjusting for potential confounders such as alcohol consumption and daily use of sleep medication.

And among people who abuse drugs and alcohol, more than three - quarters use tobacco, which means tobacco is still the leading killer of the drug - dependent, not hard drugs.

For example, a May 2015 study in the journal Pediatrics involved more than 5,000 15 - year - olds in the U.K. and measured their exposure to films featuring alcohol use.

«Cannabis probably is less dangerous to use than alcohol,» she says.

Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the current increasing use of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»

More than two decades ago, in one of the first papers using gene sequences to find signatures of natural selection, scientists hypothesized that a molecular change in an enzyme gave the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly species its superior ability to metabolize alcohol.

Interventions designed to reduce alcohol use among fraternity members are no more effective than no intervention at all, according to an analysis of 25 years of research involving over 6,000 university students published by the American Psychological Association.

This may also mean that a different group of women is getting involved in early heavy alcohol use than used to be the case; in other words, when heavy drinking occurs more frequently and tends to become the norm, women do not need to have some aberrant personal characteristic to become an early heavy user of alcohol.

Researchers also found that synthetic marijuana users were two - and - a-half times more likely to develop drug dependence than those who used other drugs (but not alcohol).

This means that male brain electrical functioning is changed more than female brains by long - term alcohol use»

In the U.S., between 40 and 50 percent of homicides involve the use of alcohol by either the victim or perpetrator, and more than half involve people who are significantly impaired by alcohol, which means that their blood alcohol levels are at or above 0.08 percent, the legal limit for driving.

Substance use was defined as use of illegal drugs (heroin, marijuana, cocaine, etc.), use of prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or high risk alcohol use.

After adjusting for numerous possible confounding factors, including body mass index and alcohol use, the researchers found that women in the highest quartile of GGT had nearly twice the risk of subsequent gestational diabetes than those in the lowest quartile.

Cannabis users also reported «addiction careers» — the years between their first use and problem resolution — that were significantly shorter than those of the alcohol group — 12 years versus 18 years, which may reflect the greater physical and mental health impairment associated with alcohol and the continuing illegality of cannabis.

At particular risk were kids who used alcohol and marijuana at the same time: They were about 50 to 90 percent more likely to admit to unsafe driving than their peers who did not drink or smoke pot.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

Individuals who report having resolved a problem with cannabis use appear to have done so at younger ages than those who resolved problems with alcohol or other drugs, report investigators from the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).