06/27/13 The Raw Alcoholism News Feed

Minority children less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

CNN (blog)

Minority children are far less likely than their white counterparts to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study in this week's journal Pediatrics. In fact, authors found that African-American children ...

ADHD In Kids: Fewer Minority Children Diagnosed With The Disorder (STUDY)

Huffington Post

(Reuters Health) - Black and Hispanic children are half as likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as their white peers, according to a new study that followed U.S. kindergarteners through middle school. "We're ...

ADHD Ups Disability Risk From Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Monthly Prescribing Reference

(HealthDay News) – Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who experience mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) are more likely to be moderately disabled from the injury, compared to similar patients withoutADHD, according to a study ...

Fewer minority kids diagnosed with ADHD

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black and Hispanic children are half as likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as their white peers, according to a new study that followed U.S. kindergarteners through middle school.

Former client throws 'baby shower' for women's center

Cathy Garner said she learned how to be a self-sufficient working mom when she spent two years living in the Center for Women in Transition in the 1990s.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/social-services/2013-03-27/former-client-throws-baby-shower-womens-center.html

Why some people are more prone to alcohol addiction

Washington, Mar. 27 : A Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center team that is studying alcohol addiction has new research, which might shed light on why some people are more susceptible to alcohol addiction than others.

http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/2643/why-some-people-are-more-prone-to-alcohol-addiction.html

Preventable liver disease costs more than diabetes: Team hopes to...

... infections such as Hepatitis B and C, as well as autoimmune diseases and lifestyle-related illnesses such as alcoholism, diabetes and obesity. "We're working on important projects exploring new therapeutic targets which could potentially lead to new ...

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-liver-disease-diabetes-team-burden.html

Dynamite Kid documentary a cautionary tale

... from drinking when he first arrived in Canada was a promise he had made to his mother due to the history of alcoholism by the men in his family. From those early years in Calgary the documentary next moves into Billington's time in Japan and his ...

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Reviews/2013/03/24/20680886.html?cid=rsssportswrestling

Can alcohol and drug abuse clinician skills be assessed over the phone?

... Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has been awarded a $267,469 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) grant to refine a telephone-based clinical assessment tool for evaluating the training of drug and alcohol counselors a ...

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2013/03/034.html

Sure Haven Addiction Treatment Center Offers Surfing Lessons to Help...

Sure Haven, a Southern California addiction treatment center exclusively for women, will again start offering surfing lessons to clients in recovery as the weather starts to warm up.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10569866.htm