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Rehab News: Research, Parental monitoring can help reduce adolescent drinking

New research has revealed that parental monitoring can help cut down on high-risk drinking in adolescents.

A study at the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland College Park surveyed more than 1,200 students to assess the level of parental supervision they had received while in secondary school.

These interviews were then followed up during the first year of university to determine the correlation between parental monitoring and alcohol consumption.

It was found that more supervision was associated with less high school drinking, which then was correlated with less drinking at university.

In the summary, the researchers said that the move to college "marks a high-risk period for escalation of alcohol consumption".

"Parents and prevention practitioners can benefit from evidence that points to specific parenting practices that might help reduce the risk for heavy drinking," they concluded, adding that young adults should still be allowed an "appropriate" amount of autonomy.

A recent study carried out in New York uncovered evidence that teenagers who were more savvy about the persuasive techniques of advertisements were less likely to drink alcohol.

Article published on 10/03/2008 by DryOutNow.com

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Budget sees alcohol prices rocket

Alistair Darling’s first Budget has seen big increases in duty on alcohol.As had been predicted earlier in the week, the chancellor's inaugural Budget announcement introduced tax hikes for beer, ...

Anti smoking drug may help drinkers

An existing anti-smoking drug may also be effective in treating alcohol dependence, US researchers have found.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted tests using rats which were given access to unlimited amounts of alcohol to see if the drug varenicline might be used as an alcohol treatment.

The team, led by Dr Selena Bartlett, found that rats given a single dose of varenicline, which is marketed as Champix in the UK, cut their drinking in half ...

Nicotine-alcohol interaction could affect alcohol treatment

The interaction between nicotine and alcohol can impact upon a person's ability to learn and may therefore have implications for alcohol treatment, researchers have said.

A new study by experts at Temple University looked at people's ability to learn and process contextual information, a type of learning that involves a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

Thomas Gould, an associate professor of psychology at Temple University, said that the goal of the research was to understand the interactive effects of nicotine and alcohol.

He revealed: "Our study showed that initially nicotine in a dose-dependent manner reverses alcohol-induced deficits in learning, but tolerance develops for this effect of nicotine with continued administration.

"We also found that a low dose of alcohol reverses nicotine withdrawal-associated deficits in learning. Furthermore, we found that chronic nicotine produces cross-tolerance to the effects of a low dose of alcohol on learning."

Professor Gould explained that if people are addicted to both drinking and smoking and attempt to give up cigarettes, they will experience a learning deficit.

"Maybe a drink will actually help them out initially, but then they consume more and they develop even worse learning deficits, so now they begin smoking again and they end up relapsing," he said.

The researchers hope that by boosting their understanding of the interaction between nicotine and alcohol "we will hopefully be in a better position to develop treatments for drug addiction".

The study is due to be published in the journal Psychopharmacology.

Article published on 08/11/2007

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