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• n  a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
  alcohol (or drink) ruined him
• n  any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation

• A new study reveals that the rate of deaths due to alcohol consumption is rising, and that drinking is now as damaging to global health as smoking was a decade ago.
• How can something can be healthy one day and unhealthy the next? A new study on alcohol and dementia shows that the results are usually more complicated than we think.
• Interactive: A look at which states consume the most alcohol by type.

• alcoholic drink
• alcoholic beverage
• intoxicant
• inebriant

News & Articles

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• Alcohol checks result in two citations
  Alcohol checks result in two citations MT. VERNON -- Two employees were cited for allegedly serving liquor to a minor as part of alcohol compliance checks conducted Thursday in the Mt. Vernon area. Carrie Loeb, 35, an employee at Lone Star, and Amand
  June 22, 2013 - Mt. Vernon Register-News
• Alcohol possible factor in crash
  Alcohol may have been a factor in a crash that sent three people to the hospital Friday evening.
  June 22, 2013 - WLFI Lafayette
• Police: Alcohol may be factor in early morning wreck
  Alcohol was suspected in a rollover crash on a Craven County front lawn, which sent the driver to a hospital, police said.
  June 21, 2013 - News Channel 12 New Bern

Quotes

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• Lindsay Lohan in New York Daily News
  It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs,she said from a Utah rehab center.
• Mayor Gavin Newsom in International Herald Tribune
  Newsom, 39, said that although "my problems with alcohol are not an excuse for my personal lapses in judgment," he had stopped drinking and wanted professional help staying sober.
• John McCain in Bloomberg
  Instead of playing favorites, our government should level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, lowering both gasoline prices and carbon emissions,McCain said.