Alcoholism News

The big beer brewers often admonish us imbibers of their products to "Drink Responsibly." Well, I say back to them: Lobby Responsibly.

Nantucket's only full-time surgeon is a recognized expert on the tick-borne illness babesiosis, a conservative and the island's only abortion provider, and an animal lover who collects road kill and keeps "mice-icles" in his freezer for his hawk, Ajax, a pet and hunting partner.

The Government has revealed it is investigating a minimum price for alcohol and that research is being done on health warnings on bottles and cans.

In 1950 when Paramount was casting "Something to Live For," an intense drama about two alcoholics who fall in love, Ray Milland was the obvious choice for leading man.

A lot of people, including many health care professionals, believe the world is made up only of alcoholics and nonalcoholics.

Texan Sam Lovett had no health insurance in August 2010 when an emergency hospital stay brought the news from his doctors that his liver was failing and he could die within less than a year without a transplant.

Following its recentA enacting of a district-wide Breathaylzer policy , the Smithtown School District has become the banner school for getting tough on teen drinking, and that extends to proms.

The 2010 Monitoring the Future Survey , in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan, reported that teenage drinking rates are at the lowest point since the study's 1975 inception.

London Ambulance Service says it is preparing to treat people affected by the cold while standing outside for Jubilee events.

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have called it "the magic drug," able to halt severe depression and suicidal thoughts in patients within a matter of hours.

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The man who pleaded guiltyA to manslaughter for beating Sanjay Ablak to death near Victoria's Streetlink ShelterA in December 2008A was sentenced Friday.

SUBSTANCE abuse has been blamed for many of crimes and social ills taking place in this country.

Quick: How many devices do you have on-hand at this very moment? How often have you checked your social media accounts in the last hour? When was the last time you played a video game? According to a January study published in PLoS ONE , a journal of the Public Library of Science, people addicted to the Internet may experience chemical changes in ... (more)

This is a question that I'm often asked: "Where is the fine line that separates normal drinking from problem drinking?" People ask this question for a good reason: They want to know if their own drinking qualifies a "normal" or "abnormal." This thinking also reflects the way we've traditionally come to think about drinking, which has been in ... (more)

Lynn Boschloo , MSc, Nicole Vogelzangs, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam; Wim van den Brink , MD, Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam; Johannes H. Smit , PhD, Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care ... (more)

Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Also Included In: Public Health ; Preventive Medicine Article Date: 31 May 2012 - 11:00 PDT Limiting alcohol to half a unit per day is best for health , say Oxford University researchers who analyzed the link between alcohol consumption and 11 chronic diseases and concluded 4,600 more lives would ... (more)

Smoking The Youth Smoking Survey shows cigarette smoking dropped to 15.5 per cent of teens in grades 6 to 12, the lowest rate since monitoring began.

Baker's Treat was aptly named. But it wasn't just the taste buds that benefited from the bakery and cafe founded 13 years ago in Flemington by Hunterdon residents Nancy and Stanley Baron: the business trained hundreds of women recovering from drug and alcohol dependency for careers in food service and business.

" Oslo , August 31st" is not just a day and a place, it is an entry point into a life, a life that this spare, measured, immaculately made film allows us to access at the worst possible moment.