Smart kids are more likely to become drunks

[Djoser]

^I was mocking the article.

[wise_owl]

(10-14-2011 02:05 PM)shakur420 Wrote:  Don't they do the same thing with weed? And how it's supposedly a "gateway drug"?

Weed IS a gateway drug



...gateway to happiness

[Laz]

and my fridge

[Fuzzly Bear]

hungarian kiddo is a G

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THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

[ZombieQueen]

My mothers side of the family are all quite intelligent..And there are a few alcoholics. So,I suppose since I'm prone to alcoholism I rarely drink..

The bountiful ignorance of people IS enough to drive people to drink..So, I'm usually in the middle of Empathy and Apathy for alot of people, and society as a whole.

Meh.

[Notorious1994]

Not just alcohol, other psychoactive substances as well

[ClichéGuevara]

Despite me saying so, you all missed the fact that the study was done in GLASGOW.

[1871]

[Mane]

(12-23-2010 10:47 PM)Illusion Wrote:  Higher IQ scores at age 10 may be associated with alcohol-related problems in adulthood

Quote:Public health experts from the University of Glasgow were able to obtain the childhood mental ability scores of over 8,000 men and women in their 30s, and found — much to their surprise —the higher IQ, the higher like hood of developing a drinking problem. The correlation existed even after factoring out socioeconomic status, and was stronger in women than it was in men.

The researchers declared the results were "unexpected" and feel the need for “further examination.”

source: asylum

So what are your thoughts on this? It doesn't really surprise me. I kinda expected it.

Then I wonder why my father is an alcoholic. Stupid Motherfucker.

Edit: With Stupid Mofo I mean my dad.

[YaelTheGreat]

The only truth in this, to me, seems that if you are more aware of the world around you, you may be more distraught and seek things, such as alcohol, to distract yourself from what you don't want to deal with. Nihilism's a bitch.

[Albliteration]

I would have read this if i wasn't completely hammered right now. (joke)

Seriously though this is interesting, I would definitely like to see a follow up study done.