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		<title>Question: How do genes affect addiction?</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/07/08/question-how-do-genes-affect-addcition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is believed that the genetic aspects of addiction are related to the way peoples&#8217; brains handle neurotransmitters.
For example, a person with genetically low levels of dopamine (the &#8220;pleasure chemical&#8221;) might discover that a certain drug raises the level and makes him feel better &#8212; without, of course, knowing exactly what happened.
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		<title>Human, Being</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/06/28/human-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get a notice from Google Calendar in my Gmail every morning.  Most of the time, it tells me that I have no events scheduled for the day, apart from the odd subscription or Internet charge coming due.  What a relief that is: &#8220;You have no events scheduled today!&#8221;
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		<title>Royalty ain&#8217;t what it&#8217;s cracked up to be. Lots of times, it&#8217;s just cracked up.</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/06/27/royalty-aint-what-its-cracked-up-to-be-lots-of-times-its-just-cracked-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Codependency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The King and the King of Pop had a good deal more in common than musical innovation.
Elvis, son of an unsuccessful Mississippi sharecropper, came from hard times and rose above them.  He reinvented popular music by successfully combining the three main aspects of American music tradition: mountain or &#8220;country&#8221; music, popular ballads, and soul.  Not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmesober.com&blog=2631653&post=941&subd=lastthing&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minelli on Jackson</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/06/26/minelli-on-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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“When the autopsy comes, all hell’s going to break loose, so thank God we’re celebrating him now,” Liza Minnelli told CBS’ “The Early Show” by telephone.
And Liza should know.
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		<title>Booze Linked To 1 In 25 Deaths Worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Booze Linked To 1 In 25 Deaths Worldwide &#8211; CBS News
Alcohol consumption is linked to one in every 25 deaths worldwide, according to a study that concludes the effects of drinking are as harmful as smoking.
In a series of articles published in The Lancet, alcohol is linked to behavioral deaths, like violent injuries, as well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmesober.com&blog=2631653&post=937&subd=lastthing&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Having It Welded</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/06/13/having-it-welded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill
Life is full of suffering. We suffer because we want things.  Sometimes they’re things we have that we don’t want to give up, and sometimes they’re things we don’t have, may never have, and want anyway.  But the worst kind of want is for things that we know we’ll never have. Read the rest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmesober.com&blog=2631653&post=907&subd=lastthing&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I know a couple, myself.</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/06/10/i-know-a-couple-myself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventy-five years ago today, a proctologist in Akron, Ohio, took his last drink of booze.&#160; As a result of his having gotten sober with the help of another drunk, a businessman from New York, Alcoholics Anonymous was born.&#160; More here.
It would be interesting to know how many people owe their lives and the sanity of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmesober.com&blog=2631653&post=905&subd=lastthing&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powerless</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/05/29/powerless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got word that my granddaughter Cadi, age 19, died last night of alcohol and chronic depression.  The details don&#8217;t matter.
Another one down.
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		<title>Question: How long is alcohol detectable in hair?</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/05/29/question-how-long-is-alcohol-detectable-in-hair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hair tests for alcohol consumption actually test for ethyl glucuronide, a metabolite of ethyl alcohol. It is always present in hair when alcohol has been used, and is never present otherwise, hence it is a positive test for consumption of alcohol.
The length of time it can be read in the hair is, theoretically, at least, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmesober.com&blog=2631653&post=899&subd=lastthing&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Birth Outcomes Increased By Lower Legal Drinking Age, Study Finds</title>
		<link>http://whatmesober.com/2009/05/27/poor-birth-outcomes-increased-by-lower-legal-drinking-age-study-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Birth Outcomes Increased By Lower Legal Drinking Age, Study Finds
&#8220;Our findings suggest that a lower drinking age increases risky sexual behavior among young people, and that leads to more unplanned pregnancies that result in premature birth and low birth weight,&#8221; said study author Angela Fertig, assistant professor in the UGA College of Public Health. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatmesober.com&blog=2631653&post=898&subd=lastthing&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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