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All adults should be screened for unhealthy alcohol use, new guidelines say
CNN ^ | Nov. 13, 2018 | Susan Scutti

Posted on 11/13/2018 4:35:29 PM PST by Innovative

You can expect a "drinking checkup" when you visit the doctor. All adults, including pregnant women, should be screened for unhealthy alcohol use by their primary care physicians, the United States Preventive Services Task Force advises. For those patients who drink above the recommended limits, doctors should provide brief counseling to help them reduce their drinking, according to the new task force statement published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.

As far as teens, the independent panel of medical experts came up empty. The task force said it did not find enough evidence to make a recommendation for or against alcohol screening and counseling for those under the age of 18. The panel is calling for more research.

Unhealthy alcohol use means drinking beyond the recommended limits. No more than four drinks in a single day and 14 drinks in a week is the line drawn for men age 21 to 64, according to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. For women and older men, the institute advises no more than three drinks in one day and no more than seven drinks in a week. There is no safe level of alcohol for pregnant women, according to the institute.

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KEYWORDS: alcohol; bigbrother; drinking
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To: alabama_heart

No thanks Doc as they strap me to the table....

-America 2025


101 posted on 11/14/2018 4:23:42 AM PST by cp124 (I didnÂ’t leave America, it left me.)
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To: Innovative

What will CNN say if we advocate screening for anti depressant drugs, and illegal drugs, especially among the press and pols?

What about asking about homo behavior, which is a known health risk?

That would be illegal!


102 posted on 11/14/2018 4:32:36 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: Sequoyah101

At my age of 71, the doctor asks if I am routinely depressed, how much I drink do I own a gun etc.
This is all driven by the AMA.


103 posted on 11/14/2018 4:47:03 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Innovative

Should be? For medicare annual wellness check that has been the policy for a long time


104 posted on 11/14/2018 4:50:14 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: bkopto

Soon our social credit scores will limit our access to booze to “healthy” levels—if we’ve been good.


105 posted on 11/14/2018 4:54:14 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Innovative

They have better things to screen for. Alcoholics rarely go to the doctor, I should know, my youngest now passed brother was one. Only sought medical when his liver got to bad. But it was the Heart Attack that killed him.


106 posted on 11/14/2018 4:56:24 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: mylife

I need a Scotch and Water on the Rocks.


107 posted on 11/14/2018 4:57:53 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: scottteng

Hubby just makes it at 14. 1 beer for supper, 1 scotch and water on rocks, short...about 7 pm.


108 posted on 11/14/2018 4:59:31 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: Innovative

I don’t know how, but none of the doctors we’ve ever gone to have tried to pry into our private lives.

One pediatrician asked my wife the gun question, but in a more proper way. “If you have guns in the home, are they properly stored?” Our idea of proper involves rapid retrieval, so yes, they are properly stored.

A few days after the Trump victory, the nurse at my doctor’s office asked if I’ve been feeling down, or depressed. I said “Nope, in fact, in the last couple weeks I’ve felt better than I have in the last eight years.”

She laughed heartily and agreed.

I drink so little I’d have trouble with 14 drinks in the last 5 years so I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but nonetheless, I disagree with this line of intrusion.


109 posted on 11/14/2018 5:56:06 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Innovative

And while we’re at it, lets check everybody’s triglycerides and cholesterol to make sure they are eating healthy. And why not their BMI too, and “recommend” federal supervised exercise courses and we could all be as healthy as, say, good Nazis...


110 posted on 11/14/2018 6:16:07 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: cyclotic

“Our idea of proper involves rapid retrieval, so yes, they are properly stored.”

So, yes, you do have guns in your home. Thank you very much.


111 posted on 11/14/2018 6:39:46 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

No, she just said “OK” Gave no answer

Actually, I wrote the question wrong. It was “If you have guns in your home, make sure they are properly stored.” to which OK is a good answer.

In my case, I had to go to my doctor and he knew I had a firearm. I got ahold of a bad box of Winchester .357 Magnum rounds (there was a recall) Long story short, I had a hangfire or something about five minutes after I pulled the trigger and suffered some pretty good burns and particulate injection into my hand. (muzzle was downrange and bullet safely ejected). he pretty much laughed at my predicament which was fine with me.


112 posted on 11/14/2018 6:53:16 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: MichiganCheese

Yeah, I’ve been told that before.

I’m just not a fan of the more robust beers.

I know a lot of folks like them.


113 posted on 11/14/2018 10:01:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: mylife

Exactly...extortion.


114 posted on 11/14/2018 2:56:14 PM PST by alabama_heart (ure)
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To: cp124

Or sooner.


115 posted on 11/14/2018 2:58:49 PM PST by alabama_heart (ure)
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To: Innovative

Bump for later.


116 posted on 11/14/2018 7:04:09 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
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To: Innovative

How about monitoring unhealthy rump ranger practices?


117 posted on 11/16/2018 4:44:49 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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