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I could keep the voices down.medium Allison DuBois - the inspiration for the NBC tv series "Medium"
[Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2005]> more on :...psychic ability
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On the surface, Zailckas comes across as a typical young woman, working out with her college cheerleading team and pledging her sorority. Her sorority sisters are party girls (but aren't parties the reason people join a sorority?). She drinks in her dorm room with her buddies - it's so cold outside, what else are they supposed to do? (Study? Nah!) At a school like Syracuse University it's easy to amuse oneself with liquor, especially when the bars are just metres away from most Greek houses and fake IDs are passed around like lipstick. Zailckas stresses that heavy drinking among young women has become so common and accepted that it doesn't seem like a big deal. She points out that the group mentality seems to be that it's perfectly OK to get wasted and wake up on the living room floor, just so long as you don't hurt anyone along the way. |
She
writes: "The sisters think of the aggressive drunk as brutish, and as a
result her penance is long and difficult. She is nicknamed, 'Fight
Club' or 'DUI Hard' or 'Hit-Rum.' For weeks, she is a punchline at
dinner, when someone will lean over the leaves of her salad and say,
'Hit-Rum walks into a bar... Ouch."'
As her college days progress, Zailckas' drinking spirals out of control. She becomes moody, depressed and angry, and starts stealing things from fraternities. "It doesn't occur to me that alcohol might be unhinging me," she writes, "that drinking at the rate that I am can induce depression, impulsive behaviour, and symptoms of bipolar and borderline personality disorder. Experts suggest that drinking when you feel low is like taking speed when you feel jumpy: It heightens the ailment instead of remedying it." She had the gumption after college to examine her life and try to make sense of why she felt the need to drink so much. She offers few answers, just some research and her own story. Even with all the studies on the topic, Smashed seems to offer the best examination of the relationship between women and alcohol in a clear and brilliant way. Zailckas's honest voice and journalistic eye for detail lift the veil off this lifestyle and show what a universal experience it can be for some women. > from Jam! / Canadian Press review by Pauline Millard |
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Tony Fingleton's odyssey leads him to become Australia's top swimmer, but his story will be familiar to countless sons of alcoholic fathers. ... Tony is learning the ancient truth for children of alcoholics: That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
But it doesn't stop a son's craving for love and approval from a parent.
But there's a larger truth Tony also learns: At some point a child's drive to succeed, to escape his or her environment, can outgrow the need to please a parent and be replaced by personal goals.
Tony Fingleton is not the first son of an alcoholic to realize wryly that he owes something to his father for providing the adversity, as scarring as it can be, that prods him to succeed.
> from review by Kevin Thomas [LA Times Feb 4 2005] of the movie based on the autobiographical novel Swimming Upstream - by Anthony Fingleton [link to amazon.co.uk]
< Harold Fingleton (Geoffrey Rush) relentlessly pushes his son Tony (Jesse Spencer) in “Swimming Upstream.” (photo: Vince Valitutti / MGM Pictures)
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Veronica Sawyer [Winona Ryder - far right with the three Heathers] :
My parents wanted to move me into high school out of the sixth grade, but we decided to chuck the idea because I'd have trouble making friends, blah, blah, blah. Now blah, blah, blah is all I ever do.
I use my great IQ to decide what color lip gloss to wear and how to hit three keggers before curfew.
J.D. [Christian Slater] : This is Ohio. If you don't have a brewski in your hand you might as well be wearing a dress.
Heathers (1989) [dvd]
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 .. .. Teen girls' drinking is on the
rise
The popularity
of sweet, fizzy and fruit-flavored 'alcopops'
The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic
beverages is rising
faster than that of boys, and on average, the girls take their first
drink at age 13, the American Medical Assn. has reported.is a growing concern. By Jamie Talan, Los Angeles Times, Dec 27, 2004 In announcing the findings of two surveys, the AMA contended earlier this month that a class of beverages informally known as "alcopops" is partly to blame. The group is warning doctors to educate teenagers about the dangers of such sweet drinks. |
The polls indicate that
teenage girls are most vulnerable to the
marketing of the beverages, which contain 5% to 7% alcohol and have
names like Rick's Spiked Lemonade, Doc Otis' Hard Lemon Flavored Malt
Beverage, Mike's Hard Lemonade and Hooper's Hooch Lemon Brew. The drinks come in colorful packaging and are also called "girlie drinks," malternatives, RTDs (ready to drink) or FABs (flavored alcoholic beverages). "We're alarmed and concerned with these findings," said the AMA's president-elect, Dr. J. Edward Hill, a family doctor in Tupelo, Miss. "Any alcohol is a drug with side effects. Alcopops are anything but fun and harmless." In one survey, 31% of teenage girls said they had drunk an alcopop in the last six months, compared with 19% of boys. The poll found that girls consumed more of all types of alcoholic beverages than boys. The polls found that half of the girls said they learned of the drinks from magazine ads and half from TV commercials. Only 34% of women 21 and older said they had seen such advertising. The AMA reported that almost one in six teen girls reported being sexually active after drinking in the last six months, and one in four who have tried alcopops had driven after drinking or had been in a car with a driver who had been drinking. |
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of article by Roxanne Nelson / WebMD
The teenage years can be turbulent, but many of the problems teens face seem to go away as they grow older and enter the adult world. |
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that isn't always the case with alcohol abuse.
If an adolescent is drinking heavily, there's a good chance that this behavior will continue beyond the teen years and into adulthood. According to researchers reporting in the January [2001] issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, if a teen's drinking problem is ignored or not adequately dealt with early on, there is a good chance the teen will drink excessively as an adult, abuse other substances and suffer from a number of psychological problems. "Rates of alcohol-use disorders in adolescence are very high, and adolescents with alcohol-use disorders also experienced elevated rates of drug use disorders and depression as young adults," says study author Paul Rohde, PhD, a scientist at the Oregon Research Institute in Eugene. |
> also see related article College Students Use Alcohol as Way of Coping with Social Anxiety - by Deanne Repich
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"They kept going, 'Hey, you want some wine? You want some beer?' " she tells Details. "This one agent said to my friend, 'Anytime you want some pot, I'll hook you up.' I was shocked..." Dealing with the elders who don't want to lead them down the substance path is odd in its own right, Sobieski adds.
"All these grown-ups are working for you," she says. "They want to get you into their game. They want to make their money off the money that you're making. And you're thinking, 'I should be working in an ice-cream place.'"
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As Drew's acting career took off, doors opened... including the doors of late night clubs where she was a party girl, trying desperately to keep up with her older friends. Out of control, she used drinks and drugs to numb her painful feelings, often to the point of passing out. Drew Barrymore began the process of rebuilding her self-esteem at a rehabilitation clinic, at age thirteen.
...from Drew Barrymore's autobiography : Little Girl Lost
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 .. .. "You have all this stuff flying around you -- your body is changing; your relationships are changing; your hormones are changing; you're besieged by school and peer group pressures. "All of that is so overwhelming for a lot of teens that they find drugs and alcohol as a temporary relief of that pressure." "Eventually you realize that if you're using drugs or alcohol, it's just a coping mechanism and that it's not taking care of the problem," Curtis says. |
"The problem will still exist. So isn't it better
to try and
solve the problem than just coping with it?"
To that end Curtis has helped support Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Teen Line. Established in 1991, the teen-to-teen hotline also provides associated community outreach services. /// Recently Teen Line honored Curtis with their Humanitarian Award for her ongoing support and devotion to helping kids. The award was presented by 16-year-old Lindsay Lohan, Curtis' co-star in the film, Freaky Friday./// "Alcohol has become very accessible to people my age, and that's really scary," Lohan says. "You don't need alcohol or drugs to have fun or to cope. If you have problems at home, don't turn to using drugs. Pick up the phone and call Teen Line. Talking about it is the best thing you can do." USATODAY.com 5/9/2003 > Teen Line - (310)-855-HOPE or (800)-TLC-TEEN (California only) |
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Kristin Davis studied
acting at Rutgers University and after graduating, moved to Manhattan.
Before she did, though, she made a decision, fueled by what she saw as
"a definite, definite problem": She quit drinking.
"When I grew up in the South, it was very easy to find ways to drink when you were young," she says. "The best thing I ever did was to get sober prior to moving to New York in the '80s. At that time it was crazy here, so I'm very happy I'd already pretty much handled it. "When you're successful, it's an easy way to deal with the pressures." from article
"Life After Sex" by Jancee Dunn, Lifetime
Magazine, Feb 2004 |
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Tobey Maguire reveals to Playboy magazine that he has joined Alcoholics Anonymous, USA Today reports. Without explaining what brought him to the program, Maguire, 28, admits, "It totally changed my life. ... AA is no-frills spirituality. There are no hokey traditions. It's so simple." Although AA is historically meant to be anonymous, Maguire goes on to talk about it. He says, "I come in, I ask for help. I'm willing. The person doesn't tell me what to do, they tell me what they did. You could be brainless and do it. You do what they ask you to do and (stuff) happens.
"Your life gets better. Your life changes." ... [People.com Daily News Email, June 25 2003]
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