$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'?

Hazardous drinking a public health issue. Identifying groups at risk such as can lead to more effective and cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies that can be used by both private and public sector agencies.

If the NIH was researching aspects of hazardous drinking involving military veterans would you object the same way?

I think it's being over analyzed by polite society way too much. Why? Because us non-addicts don't understand it, and we're never going to. No matter how veiled the approach is, the answer is still the same: It's not the addiction, it's the issues that lead to it which should be addressed.

And we see were 'cost-effective' methods have led us, don't we? It's gone from a well intended approach to an excuse for legally stealing money from addicts in such an unfortunate position.
 
I don't see the connection. He should be hunting her attorney.:D

That approach didn't work as well as he thought it would either. :D

But, at least his kids faired far better than either side. And that was his only unselfish, positive, ultimate goal in the whole ordeal.
 
I think it's being over analyzed by polite society way too much. Why? Because us non-addicts don't understand it, and we're never going to. No matter how veiled the approach is, the answer is still the same: It's not the addiction, it's the issues that lead to it which should be addressed.

And we see were 'cost-effective' methods have led us, don't we? It's gone from a well intended approach to an excuse for legally stealing money from addicts in such an unfortunate position.


Treatment that considers identity issues specific to the patient is best practice. This kind of research is studying the issues that lead to elevated addiction risk: basically it's exactly what you say you want.

I'm not sure what your second paragraph means.
 
Treatment that considers identity issues specific to the patient is best practice. This kind of research is studying the issues that lead to elevated addiction risk: basically it's exactly what you say you want.

I'm not sure what your second paragraph means.

The second paragraph means the unintended result of addiction to drugs and alcohol (substance addiction is all the same to me) has lead to the rising costs of DUI/Drug related offenses and other alcohol/drug related offenses. It's a gold mine for our local, state, and federal governments in terms of money; supposedly being put to good use for public benefit. (Which, many believe, is utter bullshit when led to believe it's used for the good of the public.) The private sector benefits in terms of money paid to them in terms of treatment. And the alcohol industry and/or drug suppliers benefits because they are the supplier.
 
Hazardous drinking a public health issue. Identifying groups at risk such as can lead to more effective and cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies that can be used by both private and public sector agencies.

If the NIH was researching aspects of hazardous drinking involving military veterans would you object the same way?

Don't be a SCHMUCK

This $$$ is nothing but a BRIBE to the FAG and LEZBO extorters....

Look who is doing the "study"......

Its NOT LEGIT

Tonda L. Hughes, Ph.D., R.N.

Inducted 2003


As researcher, advocate, and educator, she has made outstanding contributions in the area of lesbian health. Besides innovative research projects, she has advised government and private health and social service agencies, organized conferences, and made many public educational presentations. She teaches at the College of Nursing in the University of Illinois at Chicago.



As a researcher, advocate, and educator, Tonda Hughes has made outstanding contributions in the area of lesbian health.
Research and advocacy related to lesbian, gay , bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues can pose significant career risks to academic professional because such research is not always valued or understood and because funding is difficult. Nevertheless, Hughes began to pursue her interests in lesbian health as an untenured faculty member of the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the early 1990s.
In collaboration with Chicago’s Lesbian Community Cancer Project (LCCP), she helped to initiate and carry out the city’s first lesbian health needs assessment from 1992 to 1994. Since then, she has conducted 2 other major research studies among lesbian Chicagoans, including first federally funded study of lesbians’ use of alcohol. Her pioneering research continues, and in 2001 she won a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to conduct the first ever longitudinal study of lesbian health.
She is also an articulate spokesperson and advocate on LGBT health issues. She has volunteered advisory services to several Chicago health and social service agencies, including Howard Brown Health Center, LCCP, the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Office of Gay and Lesbian Health, and the Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association. She helped organize “Creating Healthy Lives: Exploring the Diversity of Lesbian Health,” a Chicago conference on health issues for lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women, and is the founding member of the Chicago Midwest Lesbian Health Research Consortium. She often presents information on lesbian health to community groups and the LGBT news media. Together with more than 100 professional publications and presentations, these activities reflect her strong commitment to disseminating research findings to health-care providers, policy makers, and the lay public.
Beyond Chicago, Hughes has consulted on LGBT health-related issues with such federal agencies as the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. She contributed to both the 1999 Institute of Medicine report on lesbian health research priorities and the 2001 Gay and Lesbian Medical Association publication (partly funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), ‘Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health’.
She serves on several journals’ editorial boards and has received research awards from the Illinois Nurses Society on Addictions (1991) and the National Nurses Society on Addictions (1998), the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Eastern Kentucky University’s College of Allied Health and Nursing (1995), the Graduate Faculty Excellence Award from UIC College of Nursing (1996), and induction as fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2001). She is now an associate professor in UIC College of Nursing and research director for the UIC Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.

This biography is as of the induction date. It has not been updated.
Additional information is available for items referenced in the biography of Tonda L. Hughes, Ph.D., R.N. at the following sites:
Howard Brown Health Center
Lesbian Community Cancer Project
Your feedback is important to us. Please feel free to Contact Us with any correction, suggestions, or feedback. By using this link it will identify the specific item on which you are providing feedback.
 
An old GF from my late teens/early 20s recently 'friended' me on the Facebook. Turns out she's lesbian, has been in a domestic partnership for the past 25 years, has a Ph.D in women's studies and teaches English at a large Northwestern university.

She has assured me though that having sex with me didn't turn her.

Knowing what I know now, my memories of her are strangely arousing.
 
I mention it by way of background. I don't really care much about letters and titles.

You can just call me Johnny.
 
You just used, "the routine" as concerns alcohol - right there a couple posts above this one. So then you're one of those "I'm better than you because I Stopped Drinking" types. Anyone who takes a drink - must be weak because you defeated the demon drink. At the least, you've posted so many times to that effect that your fear or hatred of drink certainly makes you appear a reformed sot.

And that's just fact, whatever truths hold so dear.

People ask from time to time if an argument (I won't call them "debates") on Lit ever changed your mind. This thread changed my mind. Let me explain.

Here we have two sanctimonious prigs, kbate and vetteman, locking horns yet again in a battle for rhetorical supremacy.

Having read the opening arguments, I was tempted to side with Vetteman against Kbate here, though not for any sort of superior argument on Vetteman's part.

Anyone who has read Vetteman's jibba-jabba in the past knows that he has a pathological need to emasculate anyone who doesn't agree with him.

To accomplish this, Vetty's tools of the trade typically include calling someone fat, drunk, homo or weak.

Now, kbate disagreed with Vetteman, so his defense mechanisms kicked in automatically.

The Vettemindset:
  • I can't call her weak, she's a female, by definition the "weaker sex". DISCARD.
  • I can't call her homo, I reserve that for males. Besides, lesbians are sorta hot. DISCARD.
  • I can't call her fat, people will look at her avatar, assume it's her and laugh at me. DISCARD.
  • I CAN, however, call her a drunk. ACCEPT AND CONTINUE

We've seen this play out on a near-daily basis with Vetteman for years.

But then Vetty posted this (which kbate rightly called out):

What I meant by routine was the routine in that social circle, beach parties, card games, pool tournaments, it all got old, including the drinking that went with it. I neither feared or hated drinking. I have seen it destroy people, I just wasn't one of them. Same thing with smoking, walked away cold from that too. It was more about maintaining good health and setting a good example for my small sons at the time.

There's a level of self-serving sanctimony here. This sounds exactly like something you'd hear at an alcoholic anonymous meeting.

Vetty has prided himself on his lifelong resistance to any sort of change, truth is, he revels in his obstinancy. To him, the world today should be exactly the same as it was when he was growing up in the 1950s.

But then, in 1979...something happened that forced Vetty to change. Perhaps it was his first DUI, perhaps it was his first heterosexual marriage falling apart, perhaps he lost his first private-sector job due to his drinking.

Regardless of the root cause, SOMETHING obviously happened to make Vetty stop drinking, and now he revels in his alcohol-free existence (not unlike AJ...two peas inna pod) and uses it as a bludgeon to pummel his political opponents.

Bottom line: point to kbate.
 
so this so called study

is a PAYOFF to a LEZ BO

and the LEZ BO "community"......the study will NEVER end, cause the $$$ flow will never stop.....and will conclude in a WAY that will make LEZ BOZ look great and SHIT on the COCKS:D
 
Back
Top