The temptation is to self-diagnose, says Dr Guy Ratcliffe, head of the Medical Council on Alcohol - a group set up in the 1960s to tackle medics with addiction problems.
While some individual Brothers have urged the banning of alcohol in Egypt, the group's leaders have generally remained vague on such social issues.
He adds that the study benefited from examining a group whose rates of alcohol and tobacco use are low.
The group promotes responsibility within the alcohol sector and its findings, although not legally binding, carry weight within the industry.
The standards were developed by a steering group comprised of representatives from drug and alcohol services, service commissioners and regulatory bodies.
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Until the capture of British soldiers, the West Side Boys, a small ill-disciplined group with a reputation for taking drugs and alcohol, were largely ignored by the United Nations, the Sierra Leonean Government and Britain.
Joe Godfrey, a veteran Southern Baptist pastor who runs a policy and education group addressing "moral concerns" such as alcohol and drug abuse, says it "burdens" him to see churches supporting alcohol consumption and homebrewing.
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At the same time, whites may drink more because, as a group, they are more affluent and can better afford alcohol, says Jones-Webb.
But the news has been given a muted response by the Portman Group, whose purpose is to help prevent misuse of alcohol and promote sensible drinking.
Mr Norquist is the pugnacious founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements.
Fiona Ryan, is chief executive of Alcohol Action Ireland, which is a member of the strategy's steering group.
Because of the data already being collected about these people, the study allowed Saczynski's group to control for heart disease, heart attack, stroke, smoking, alcohol use and other factors that could have influenced dementia.
Complaints are referred to the group's Independent Complaints Panel which, in this case, ruled the labelling "breached alcohol responsibility rules for using a drawing with particular appeal to young children to market alcoholic drinks".
One analyst also noted there were statistically significant and meaningful imbalances favoring patients in the control group in several characteristics that are known to be important risk factors for acute pancreatitis, particularly alcohol and gallstones.
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