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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: FrdmLvr

The correct answer is a big FU.


21 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:04 PM PST by Ken H
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To: alabama_heart

They laid wellness checks on me today too.

Spill all the info or we jack your rates.


22 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:06 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Innovative

I don’t but I’ll be go to hell if I let someone check if I do.

My doc tried the standard barky care line of annual physical questions and I refused every one of them. I also told him he should know better than to ask me those things.


23 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:07 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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To: al baby

Tragic.


24 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:32 PM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: Innovative

Haven’t you heard? You can smoke all the pot you want and it cures cancer and doesn’t affect your performance in anyway.


25 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:34 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Innovative; All

Reference back to my previous post......the commenter was Kirsten Powers.


26 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:42 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: alabama_heart

I refuse to take a flu vaccine because they usually don’t prevent the flu and the injection has thermisol as an ingredient.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I’m 60. Never had a flu shot, never gonna get one..

Plus, I don’t drink at all. Maybe I can sell some of you drunks a few drink credits.


27 posted on 11/13/2018 4:56:56 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Innovative

Answers to those questions are right up there with “Do you have a gun at home.”. Get the same answer to both.


28 posted on 11/13/2018 4:57:04 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: Innovative

LIE.


29 posted on 11/13/2018 4:57:17 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Sequoyah101

A ‘six pak’ a week is all I answer to.
Not dead yet...


30 posted on 11/13/2018 4:57:52 PM PST by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: al baby

Did your prescription drugs and Trump memorabilia also go down with your boat?


31 posted on 11/13/2018 4:58:16 PM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: Innovative

“How much alcohol do you have in your house?”

“Do you own a gun?”

“Are you a veteran?”

This way, please...


32 posted on 11/13/2018 4:58:56 PM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: Innovative

“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.”

Did the “Onion” sneak that in?


33 posted on 11/13/2018 4:59:11 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Innovative

FoAD

Just went to the doctor and received a very clean bill of health

Blood pressure fine

Cholesterol fine

Sugar or whatever is fine

No enzymes indicating liver damage

and the givernment wants to get into your life even more so then can control and the costs associate with taking care of you in old age...


34 posted on 11/13/2018 4:59:15 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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Just don’t ask a sex partner if they have aids, or ask a gay man if he has random sex in public parks and lets strange men urinate on him, that’s all judgey...


35 posted on 11/13/2018 4:59:22 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: bkopto

Socialized medicine always was about a nanny state and control. Hitler would approve, he was anti-smoking.


36 posted on 11/13/2018 5:00:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: scottteng

See my #9.

It will start off at 15 per week, then drop to 2 per day, then 10 per week, then one per day, etc.

They did it with tobacco and BAC, now they are coming for you IN YOUR HOME and you don’t see it!

Freedom includes being free to make unpopular decisions. The gov’t is NOT our parent!


37 posted on 11/13/2018 5:01:55 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Innovative

Well, I guess I’ll have to lie to him about that
just like I lie to him about everything else.


38 posted on 11/13/2018 5:04:03 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: scottteng

Or lie to your doc. I do all the time


39 posted on 11/13/2018 5:04:51 PM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: FrdmLvr

In my case, it is true.

I could never stand alcohol.


40 posted on 11/13/2018 5:04:53 PM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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