#ALCOHOL

Mind boggling case13-year old girl5 - 6 years on #ayurvedic treatment (shown below) for #Epilepsy. #Ayurveda promised no more #seizure. Now jaundice, fluid in abdomen, dark pigmentation#livertwitter #MedTwitter #MedEd #Science
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Scotland's sockpuppet state. A short thread. 1/ In an article in Holyrood magazine, a campaign group calls on the Scottish government to increase the minimum price of alcohol.https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,associate-feature-putti
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One of the under-reported findings from surveys of drinking during lockdown is in the detail of @AlcoholChangeUK survey. While 22% drank on fewer days and 21% on more days, the
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1/Here's a story from my college days about persuasion and majority rule that I think is instructive for the present moment.When I was a freshman, my dorm was debating whether
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I have tweeted extensively about being a non drinker in this alcohol soaked country all I will say is drinkers stop asking people why they don’t drink and just get
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Breweries in Southern Nigerian pay their company income taxes to the Federal Government, who then shares it to ALL states, including the states for whom alcohol is "haram". The injustice
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The very nice folks @WHO_Europe published a new report about alcohol pricing today.I wrote most of it (with help from all sorts of wise folk), so here's a brief summary
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Your favourite recipe with alcohol in it please?That’s tonight’s theme on #LincolnshireKitchen @BBCRadioLincs 8pm! Frankly I’ll do well not to drink more than I cook with here in my own
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TW // EDI'm not really sure what the point of me sharing my own history with anorexia is, other than to maybe contribute to normalising talking about eating disorders.I don't
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my favourite alcohol free beers and less conventional 'adult' soft drinks just in case my post on alcohol free spirits the other day wasn't your bag and you're bored of
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I was thinking about deactivating but instead I'm just going to say what's bothering meplease don't:tell me I should drink alcohol or do drugs when I say I'm having a
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Me, drunk? Never. Like i said, never. No alcohol was consumed before taking these pics. I promise. Me contemplating my life’s decision (obvs this isn’t alcohol) I did not participate
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In all seriousness, I do want to echo what others, including @AlexAndersonMD have said about the #MedBikini movement. Although I LOVE the solidarity and pictures of all of you smart,
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Just finished reading this insightful paper by Sarah Cains et al. that shed some light on the biological mechanisms of alcohol-induced overeating AKA 'why we get the drunchies'https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14014 So we've
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my peak introvert behavior was when I never ever had those alcohol nights in college. i only later transformed into a pure alcoholic post-grad during my Europe tours LMAO I
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Below is the start of a thread by a geneticist on discovering that the most extreme single genetic variant he can find in @GWASCatalog actually tells you about the huge
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