Prior research has demonstrated greater addiction vulnerability in women; for example, women advance from casual substance use to addiction at a faster rate, experience more severe withdrawal symptoms, exhibit higher rates of relapse, and have less treatment success than men. A new study shows that biobehavioral interactions in alcohol use disorders (AUDs) among women are cyclical in nature: women’s greater risk of personal histories of trauma coupled with a greater vulnerability to alcohol-related brain deficits can lead to more severe AUD effects.
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Trauma History and Alcohol’s Effects on the Brain Combine to Make Women More Vulnerable to Alcohol Use Disorders
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How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive waste
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Study explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas.
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Vietnamese market vendors combine work with exercise routines
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HANOI – Market workers in Hanoi take a break from selling vegetables, meat and other products to do daily aerobic exercises to the pounding beat of music.
