MPs were more likely than the general population to drink at least ten units of alcohol on a typical drinking day.
- Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in older people's substance use and mental health, King's College London
Drinking at “safe” levels was shown to reduce the amount of a person’s total brain tissue.
Providing support and treatment might help reduce harmful drinking behaviours in seniors.
Specific challenges must be addressed in the older population who are at risk from alcohol abuse.
Baby boomers have shown the fastest rise in rates of alcohol and drug misuse in the last 15 years.
More work needs to be done to prove a link between not drinking and developing dementia.
Cannabis use among the baby boomer generation is on the rise, here’s why.
More and more baby boomers are getting hooked on oxycodone, vicodin and tramadol.
Baby boomers preferred drugs and alcohol, but the younger generation are ruining their health with social media.
Gabapentin is the new Valium.
Hard living and formative years during which health issues were understood less than today are coming home to roost.
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