Can I buy you a drink? Genetics may determine sensitivyt to other people’s drinking behavior
Your friend walks into a bar to meet you for happy hour. He sidles up to the bar and orders a drink — does that make you more likely to get a drink yourself? According to new findings reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, genetics may determine the extent to which you are influenced by social drinking cues — signals such as advertisements, drinks placed on a bar, and seeing other people around you drinking. Click here to read the remainder of this post on Science Daily, July 23, 2010.
Should You Tell Your Kid if YOU Did Drugs as a Teen?
Remember those anti-drug public service ads from the ’80s? One of the most memorable showed a father finding his teen son’s stash and angrily confronting him about it, only to face the boy’s furious, devastating rejoinder, “I learned it by watching you, Dad!” Click here to finish this article by Kate Tuttle, posted on the blog, MomLogic.
Washington [State] Imposts New Rules on Prescribing Powerful Painkillers
The state of Washington plans to impose tough new rules on doctors who want to prescribe opiate painkillers to patients, including mandatory third-party evaluation of patients who request higher doses of the drug but don’t show signs of improvement, the New York Times reported July 28. Read the rest of this News Summery on Join Together.org.
