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At Intermountain Hospital, we are positively changing lives - lives that are affected by mental and emotional stress or chemical dependency. It is our philosophy that nobody needs to cope alone. We provide a safe and secure environment for addressing the pressing problems that can dominate those lives in our care.

From personalized treatment plans and a caring and compassionate staff emerges new ways of coping, new styles of behavior, new means of expressing feelings, new ideas on how to resolve conflicts and new methods of establishing boundaries. Our goal is to provide help, offer hope and begin the journey of healing.

Binge drinking* is a dangerous behavior for all ages. Drinking too much, including binge drinking, causes more than 79,000 deaths in the US each year and is a leading preventable cause of death. Binge drinking has not been well-recognized as a public health problem. More than 15% of US adults report binge drinking. It is most common in men, adults in the 18–34 age range, and people with household incomes of $75,000 or more. This is a community issue, not just an individual issue. This CDC report points out how common binge drinking is and what can be done about it. Latest findings Binge drinking is common and dangerous but is not a well-recognized public health problem. Binge drinking is common across all ages. Binge drinking happens more than 4 million times...]]>

Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): The next time you feel tempted to enjoy an extra glass of wine, consider it as a reflection of your intelligence, says a new study. In the National Child Development Study in the UK and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the US, childhood intelligence was measured before the age of 16. It was categorized in five cognitive classes, ranging from 'very dull,' 'dull,' 'normal,' 'bright' and 'very bright.' The Americans were revisited seven years later. The British youths, on the other hand, were followed in their 20s, 30s and 40s, reports Discovery News. Researchers measured their drinking habits as the participants became older. More intelligent children in both studies grew up to drink alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children. In the Brits' case, 'very bright' children grew up to consume nearly eight-tenths of a standard deviation more alcohol than their "very dull" cohorts. Researchers...]]>

Washington Oct 22 (ANI): Drunkorexia-a new trend that involves not eating in order to save calories for alcohol-is gaining momentum amongst youngsters. A drunkorexic is a person who restricts food intake to reserve those calories for alcohol and binge drinking, and note that people are more susceptible to drunkorexia in college. A recent study by the University of Texas School of Public Health and the University of North Texas Health Science Centre found that in the past 10 years binge drinking has increased among young men and women. "It was just something I always did while in college as a normal part of my diet so that I could stay skinny but still go out and drink," ABC News quoted Savannah, a 22-year-old University of Texas graduate as saying. "I do know a lot of people who skip meals to drink, drink heavily, and don't gain any weight. Obviously their success in this...]]>