Gettin’ Buzzed; No Sex Leads to Alcohol Addiction in Fruit
Flies?  2012-03-23 15:20:35 (GMT) ( - Health News Press Release
News)  Print & Social Options alcohol addiction alcohol
addiction  03/20/2012 // San Clemente, CA, US // McClain
Concepts // McClain Concepts  Offering some potential insight
into the cycle of alcohol addiction, apparently drowning your
sorrows with booze after being sex-deprived is not an
exclusively human trait. It turns out that fruit flies share
those same tendencies as well. According to a recent study done
by the University of California, San Francisco sex starved fruit
flies were more likely to reach for the metaphoric bottle.  The
study found that when male fruit flies were rejected by lady
fruit flies after trying to mate, they were way more likely to
turn to alcohol-spiked food rather than non-spiked food. Other
factors were ruled out to verify that it was indeed the lack of
sexual fulfillment that drove the spurned flies to getting one
step closer to alcohol addiction. The stud