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There are currently over a million soldiers in the US army, many have seen combat and survived to live with what they’ve witnessed. Some soldiers manage to cope, others never do, resorting to the use of drugs and alcohol to numb the pain and somehow kill the visions and voices in their heads.

Many soldiers suffer from a variety of psychological problems including nightmares, flashbacks, paranoia and irrational anger for these reasons, Alcohol and Drug abuse is quickly becoming a growing problem among returning war vets, with the number of binge drinkers and narco-users nearly doubling in the past six years. Figures suggest that 11 out of every 1,000 soldiers suffered from alcohol abuse problems in the first have of 2009.

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The Department Of Health – Shines a light on new research that links sleep problems with alcohol use. The research states that more the 50% of drinkers are unware of this link. Drinkers often feel that a drink or two will help them fall asleep – not the case.

More often than not your body is in a state of cleaning house meaning that as you slumber your body isn’t really resting at all, therefore the quality of your sleep is affected, leaving you feeling tired and sometimes even hungover the next morning.

To avaiod this feeling of sleepiness, researchers suggest that you avoid drinking too much alcohol prior to bed time, this way your body has enough time to metabolize the alcohol. When you awake you’ll feel more refreshed, and you’ll have a lot less explaining to do, particularly if you had one too many shots of the bottle.

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Initially as a meeting to address race relations, the meeting and it’s venue has quickly spurred a debate as to whether beer should be on the menue.

Since Alcohol use among youths has become a permanent fixture in the media, many argue “is it even wise to use an alcoholic component in such a meeting?” – surely it is not needed. This is the very same component that has Alocholics and many through out the recovery community up in arms.

Ironically, the alcoholic component injected into the meeting arose as a result of President Obama’s phone call to Sergeant Crowley, who unexpected took the call on his cell phone in a local police bar. It was later stated that “The idea of meeting for a beer seemed appropriate at the time.”

Now the world has inappropriately coined it the “Beer Summit”, leaving those with real alcohol and addiction problems filled with chagrin.

Many also argue that while the president is experiencing various sates of inebriation, desperately trying to stitch the wounds of his supposed “racial remarks”, many good American men and women are being killed over seas.

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Daniel Wech, 21, Alex Stucki, 20, and a third man, Devin McClain, 21, have been charged in the death of another student from Geneseo State College, Arman Partamian which resulted from a night of binge drinking.

The 3 young men were each charged with criminally negligent homicide which could carry a prison sentence of up to 4 years. The men were also charged with multiple counts of hazing and dealing with underage drinking.

Arman Partamian’s body was discovered on the morning of March 1 in a fraternity-type club house after drinking heavily for three days. Partamian was one of three fraternity pledges known as “pigs” that were hazed during the alcohol fueled weekend. The hazing was part of an initiation into a fraternity house known as the Pig House.

An autopsy found that Arman Partamian’s death was a direct result of alcohol poisoning, as his blood-alcohol content was believed to be as high as 0.55 percent; almost 7 times the legal limit for driving. Arman Partamian, as well as the rest of the students being hazed, were all under aged. Witnesses say that the three pledges were forced to continue drinking by other Pig House members even though they were visibly intoxicated. One student mentioned the incident to a resident advisor on campus who in turn called 911. “The Pigs were forcing these individuals to drink entire bottles of alcohol around the fire.” The resident advisor told police. “They were, like falling over and vomiting and just, extreme, like hazing,”

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