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This thesis explores ancient ideas regarding the constructive properties of intoxicating drinks, as presented in Greco-Roman sources from the first to third centuries AD. In doing so, it responds to Mary Douglas' Constructive Drinking (1987), which emphasised that, contrary to a…

Women ages 18-24 are at the highest risk for sexual victimization (SV), with more than 20% of women affected during college. The self-medication model of alcohol use, whereby drinking is negatively reinforced through the reduction of distress, is widely supported as a method by …

This essay examines how the developing moral panic over absinthe during the Belle Époque of Paris (1871–1914) played a pivotal role in influencing the painted representations of absinthe drinking women during the turn of the twentieth century. Societal anxieties regarding the fe…