From CNS NEWS:

National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded  $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous  drinking.”

The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its  project, “Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of  Adult Lesbians,” which aims to develop “culturally sensitive” strategies  to prevent lesbians from being drunks.

“Studies using both probability and nonprobability samples provide  ample evidence of lesbians’ vulnerability to hazardous drinking,” the  grant’s description reads. “However, very little is known about the factors that increase lesbians’ risk for hazardous drinking.”

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