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Each night I leave the bar room when it's over Not feeling any pain at closing time But tonight your memory found me much too sober Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind.

The price of beer has a good chance of increasing this year if lawmakers can get a proposed tax hike to Gov.

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Labour was launching a new commission which will look at ways of tackling alcohol abuse and reducing the amount of caffeine in drinks such as the controversial tonic wine Buckfast.

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Main Category: Bio-terrorism / Terrorism Also Included In: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Article Date: 07 Feb 2010 The Health Protection Agency and NHS London can confirm that a drug injecting heroin user has tested positive for anthrax and is being treated in a London hospital.

Q. I would like to seek information regarding liver cirrhosis, a condition my mother has.

A leading lawmaker wants Gov. Joe Manchin to support raising the beer tax to fund an ambitious plan to reduce substance abuse.

While state budgets in Oregon and Washington face gaping holes, advocates of legalizing marijuana say taxing pot can help fill those holes.

SUMMARY: Injection drug users and alcoholics often receive a late diagnosis of HIV and thus have more advanced disease and poorer outcomes than other groups of HIV positive patients.

Ronnie Wood is taking anti-craving tablets to help him stop drinking. The Rolling Stones rocker is reportedly taking one Campral tablet everyday to help him cope with the withdrawal symptoms as he attempts to reduce his alcohol intake.

No one thought it would be easy. Richard Nary has moved in with his daughter and her family in a small town in Wisconsin, 35 years after leaving his wife and children, sinking into alcoholism and living on the streets of Sacramento.

Alcoholism is a disease in which the affected individual is addicted to alcohol.

Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Psychology / Psychiatry The brain's innate interest in the new and different may help trump the power of addictive drugs, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Nebraska Governor Governor Dave Heineman and other state officials met privately in Gordon last Friday with leaders from the Oglala Sioux Tribe to talk about the on-going problems associated with alcohol sales in Whiteclay.

A coroner has said that two men who drowned in treacherous currents made an "ill-judged, irresponsible and reckless" decision to swim out to sea in Somerset.

The Addiction Treatment and Medication Development Division of University of Pennsylvania is currently conducting a clinical trial on the Pharmacogenetic Response to Naltrexone for Alcohol Dependence .

Researchers are linking a stress hormone to alcoholism in animals, and they report that blocking it could become a strategy to help stop the addiction in people.

Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Also Included In: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Pediatrics / Children's Health Prenatal alcohol exposure is widely known to impair brain development in exposed offspring.