If a friend of yours experiences severe intoxication, this places them at high risk for alcohol overdose/poisoning and the resulting medical problems.
The Office of Public Safety, in conjunction with WesWELL, the Dean of Students Office and Res Life will be holding four Severe Intoxication Panels designed to help students understand the [...]

From MedLinePlus…
When teens go on a binge drinking episode, they may be doing serious damage to the sensitive “white matter” in their brain, a new MRI-based study suggests.
White matter is involved in relaying information between brain cells, the researchers said. This means that damage caused to the developing brain by bouts of heavy drinking could [...]

Do you enjoy a drink now and then? Many of us do, often when socializing with friends and family. Drinking can be beneficial or harmful, depending on your age and health status, and, of course, how much you drink.
Check out Rethinking Drinking, a new Web site from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 
For anyone who [...]

What words we choose can have a powerful influence on how we view almost anything — history, a political situation, a person, even our own behaviors and the behaviors of others. The meaning we assign to those words can also influence our perception. For example, the meaning one person assigns to the phrase “hooking up” [...]

Interesting concept…go to B4UDrink.mobi from your cellphone or smartphone and you can calculate your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) on the spot. A few quick questions and you’ll have your answer.  The Century Council created the website in conjuction with the University of Illinois.  (Pssst…it works in a regular web browser, too.)
Want to know more about [...]

Want to live longer?
Maybe that seems like something to worry about in the far-flung future, but new research indicates it may boil down to four simple things you can do that will prolong your life by an average of 14 years and improve your overall health in the meantime. The Mayo Clinic Health Letter reports on this research.
Does the [...]

If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching the podcasts for the Midwest Teen Sex Show, now’s your chance. Their latest installment is on Sex, Drugs & Alcohol.

or view it here.

When discussing the 21-year-old legal age to consume alcohol in the United States, many people cite lower ages and generally more permissive attitudes around alcohol in the European Union as evidence that we’re doing things all wrong in the U.S.  This argument often implies that there simply aren’t the problems in Europe that we experience here.  Yet, the Washington Post reports that problems [...]

From ScienceDaily…
Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they [...]

As if April isn’t busy enough around Wesleyan, it has also been designated Alcohol Awareness Month nationally. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an FAQ to address some of the basic questions around alcohol. Click on any of the links below to be taken to their FAQ:
 Introduction to alcohol

What is alcohol? [...]