Study looked for links between teenage anxiety and later harmful drinking
The study, published today (Monday 11 November) in Drug and Alcohol Dependence at the start of Alcohol Awareness Week (11 – 17 November) strengthens the evidence for a relationship between anxiety and later alcohol use as the researchers accounted for other factors such as adolescent smoking and cannabis use, and parental anxiety and alcohol use.
Researchers used a longitudinal design to help disentangle the order of associations between generalised anxiety disorder and alcohol use. They also tested whether drinking to cope, a motive for drinking alcohol, influenced these associations.
Using questionnaire and clinical interview data from more than 2000 participants, they found generalised anxiety disorder at age 18 was linked to frequent drinking, frequent bingeing, hazardous drinking, and harmful drinking at age 18. Generalised anxiety disorder continued to be associated with harmful drinking at age 21.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/november/alcohol-and-teen-anxiety.html
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Norovirus and stomach bugs outbreak: Symptoms and what NHS says to do
A nasty stomach bug is 'dropping people like dominoes' across the South West recently.
Dozens of reports are coming in of an outbreak in a nasty illness that is very similar to the highly contagious norovirus throughout November and into December.
Cases have been reported across the UK, including at a huge lego event here in Bristol.
In response Public Health England and the NHS advise people who believe they are ill to contain themselves and follow strict hygiene procedures.
People have reported projectile vomiting, diarrhea, and suffering aches, pains and headaches.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/norovirus-symptoms-outbreak-2019-nhs-1795598
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