Pill Helps Alcoholics Taper Off Drinking

A migraine pill seems to help alcoholics taper off their drinking without detox treatment, researchers report, offering a potential option for a hard-to-treat problem. The drug, Topamax, works in a different way than three other medications already approved for treating alcoholism.

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Foley Acquaintances Question Alcoholism

When disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley announced he was entering rehab for treatment of alcoholism and "other behavioral problems," some of those who have known him for years were shocked and suspicious, saying they rarely saw him drink.

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David Hasselhoff: `I Don't Drink Anymore'

David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff says he sliced four tendons and an artery in his right arm last month in an accident in London. He was shaving when he hit his head on a lamp and it broke.

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Why?

December 15th, 1975. It has been 34 years since the accident. 34 years since mom left dad in the middle of the day.

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Two days after Britney Spears was removed from her home strapped to a gurney, she was sipping a mimosa and laughing hysterically in Palm Desert with her new boyfriend - a 35-year-old paparazzo. It's all evidence, her family is saying, that the troubled pop star has serious menta …

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BOSTON -- Underage drinking and teens can be a fatal mix. But as NewsCenter 5's Heather Unruh reported Tuesday, a unique program is using science to get through to teens about the dangers of alcohol.

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Living with an addict...

In life, we are all faced with challenges, from time to time, things tend to overwhelm us and make us wonder what our purpose is on Earth, we aren't sure if we can get through another day, but somehow we find the strength to move forward into our tomorrow.

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A former deputy, fired because of his problems with alcohol, is suing the Sarasota sheriff because he claims the office discriminated against him because of his alcoholism disability.

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The message left on his cell phone is nearly four months old, but John Reaves still has it, still plays it and still uses it as a reminder of where he was, where he is and where he needs to stay.

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A dashboard camera captured the arrest of Dante Krauss, who authorities said was pulled over for driving his motorcycle with a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit while naked.

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Updated, 5:18 p.m. | The woman who died in a head-on crash into an sport-utility vehicle while driving a minivan the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County last week — killing her daughter, three nieces and three men in the S.U.V.

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Alocohol abuse is killing three times more people in Wales in just one generation. Alcohol-related deaths in Wales rose from 199 in 1992 to 573 last year, with the sharpest rise taking place in the past two years.

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Buzz Aldrin has been on many journeys in his remarkable life, and in some respects the one to the moon was the least challenging.

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The principal cast of "Family Ties" all gathered for the first time in 18 years on Thursday to help promote a new memoir by the creator of the iconic 1980s television sitcom, Gary David Goldberg.

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I keep you, my brother

In March of 1984 for my 10th grade English class with Miss Farbstein, I turned in a research paper on Autism. The paper was only 7 1/2 pages of work and contained 67 footnotes. It included information I gathered from sources like:

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A study indicates drinkers less susceptible to the effects of alcohol are more likely to become alcoholics.

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Alcoholics Anonymous is the most widely used treatment for alcoholism. It is mandated by the courts, accepted by mainstream medicine, and required by insurance companies.

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The principal cast of "Family Ties" all gathered for the first time in 18 years on Thursday to help promote a new memoir by the creator of the iconic 1980s television sitcom, Gary David Goldberg.

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From the bushes

I am lying on the ground, cool frost on my palms. Soon it will snow for Santa. The wind is moving through the pines, like fast water in a rocky stream. A voice from above cries, "Are your alright?"

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Death of a daughter, fall of a father

For the love of Joy By Charles Griffith The hardest part of God's forgiveness, is our ability to accept it. While I have accepted, with unbelievable gratitude, that forgiveness, forgiving myself is on a whole different level. Now I am going to tell you my story.

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If not for his alcohol addiction, Brian Vivier wouldn't have lost his business, his family and his home.

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excerpt: "Most mornings during nice weather, Lee Cowgill has coffee on the 32-foot-long balcony of his Quincy condo with its view of the building's pool. He moved in just short of a year ago, and it's the first place the 51-year-old has ever owned.

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There are few leading men with such iconic status as Paul Newman. His piercing blue eyes, lean physique and laconic smile meant women never stopped swooning over him. The fact that he was famously happily married, to Joanne Woodward, only added to his perfection.

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Lindsay Lohan is looking for a lover who does not mind her alleged alcoholism or electronic monitoring bracelet, or so the famously troubled Hollywood actress said in a mock Internet dating profile.

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Whether you're a college student prone to binge-drinking or a professional who regularly drinks a glass of wine with dinner, specialists are encouraging drinkers of all kinds to pause and consider whether their imbibing could be a precursor to alcoholism.

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The old adage of an apple a day has since been applied to wine, but for many struggling with addiction this "justification" of a glass of wine a day may prove fatal.

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Observe, Question, Contemplate - REMIX

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! A MOUNTAIN IS RISING!!! A MOUNTAIN IS RISING!!! ...oh wait, that was just an acorn falling on my head, and a mole hole tickling my toe.

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