[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/29/health/webmd/main2999567.shtml Study Finds 5 Types Of Alcoholics] I was going to add this as a news link at the top of the page but perhaps it needs its own section? *It's an interesting tangent but top of the page??? :) Also if you go to the web site for the [http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/AlcoholResearch/ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism] they seem to have a lot of research papers that are in the PD. The ones that caught my eye were the ones that dealt with the dangers of alcohol and tobacco together - its not hard to see how that could work for other substances like weed and so on. I know when I was young and smoked I would smoke 20 a day but when we would go out and binge drink at the weekends I could easily smoke 60 - it also lead to some poor decisions with other substances I wont go into here... and they say weed is the gateway drug! *Nice collection and added to a new section for links. Going to the actual webMD site I found [http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20070625/smoking-may-hinder-alcoholism-recovery?action=related_link&src=rss_cbsnewsfull this] which interests me as the advice from the UKs Heart Foundation on how to best protect your heart is to give up smoking if you do and eat a healthy diet and exercise - not to drink moderate amounts of alcohol. ~~~Profile:Glandmaster~~~ *This is already mentioned in the health section and has been emphasized. ---- I hope the following explanations help to dry out any wet blanket effect caused by reverting recent wiki edits.--~~dimitri~~ ---- '''Music Video''' It seems to reinforce links between alcohol and entertainment, especially music, even though it was a country music video against alcohol. ---- '''Fetal Alcohol Syndrome''' FAS was not included because it's so rare and complicated. '''UPDATE:''' was included after further research revealed the following: #FASD babies are probably much more numerous than statistics show due to misdiagnosis[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_Alcohol_Spectrum_Disorder#Other_FASD_diagnoses] #Some of the worst effects happen between the 18th and 24th __day__ of pregnancy. #'''A large portion of the women who drank didn't know they were pregnant!''' '''Rare:''' "Fetal alcohol syndrome is listed as a __rare disease__ by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."[http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/f/fetal_alcohol_syndrome/prevalence.htm] The incidence rate in the USA is "approx 1 in 755,555 or 359 people" or "359 per year, 29 per month, 6 per week". Culture also seems very significant: ''FAS rate per 10,000 births:'' || Native Americans || 29.9 || || African Americans || 6.0 || || Caucasians || 0.9 || || Hispanics || 0.8 || || Asians || 0.3 || '''Complicated:''' "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_Alcohol_Spectrum_Disorder Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)] describes a continuum of permanent birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, which includes, but is not limited to Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)." Another issue is FAS being a mere subset of many tragic secondary effects of alcohol, meaning the primary victim is not the drinker. However the Mayo Clinic suggests a slightly larger problem: "As many as '''40,000''' babies are born with some type of alcohol-related damage each year in the United States. Fetal alcohol syndrome affects an estimated one to two out of every 1,000 births in the United States."[http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fetal-alcohol-syndrome/DS00184] ---- '''Images''' Images have a way of enhancing or distracting from the potency of concepts encoded with text. I felt distracted by the inclusion of "this is you brain on alcohol" imagery. I think this page needs to be read, not passively watched or heard...