Kinkade was 'drinking all night' when he died

Acid trip may treat alcoholism, report suggests

Warning: Banking is bad for your health

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.

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.

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.

Rep. Xavier Becerra [D-CA] on Friday made an unusual comparison in describing Mitt Romney’s struggle to woo Hispanic voters, arguing that the first step for the former Massachusetts governor, as for an alcoholic, is to acknowledge that he has a problem.

Journal of An Alcoholic In Rehab - Part 3 of Rage Writing!!!

Part 2 is right here and part 1 is over here. When wrote these, I was still on my 72 hour involuntary hold at St. John's medical center. The one cool thing about being there was the fact that I didn't have to do laundry. My clothes had been confiscated and we all wore scrubs.  …

In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are affecting residents of an Indian reservation that has been decimated by alcoholism. The reservation is dry, but th …

Journal of An Alcoholic In Rehab - Part 1 of Rage Writing!!

So, the first full day of being involuntarily committed to the psych ward/detox chamber of United Hospital, I started what I refer to as "rage writing". And in reviewing all of this now, I think to myself, "Holy CRAP, you were one crazy bitch!!"  These were all written while …

"I've drained the dregs and tossed the empty bottle at the world." Some advice, you know, from one drinker to another.

News of Thomas Kinkade’s death arrived on the same day I received in the mail a vintage teacup on which I had spent a ridiculous amount of money. It has a cottage painted on it. Kinkade, whose work has long exerted a morbid fascination for me (to the concern of all my fri …

"Decades ago, researchers would examine LSD's effects on various health conditions including pain, anxiety, and alcoholism."

SPOKANE, Wash.

Rape Trauma Syndrome seriously effects the victim similarly to PTSD.

Much has been made of a 2010 Gallup survey finding that the proportion of people saying they drink alcohol increases steadily with income. Alcohol consumption went from 46 percent for people earning less than $20,000 to 81 percent for people earning over $75,000.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Retired Brigadier General Stanley Cherrie flew into machine gun fire, lost a leg to a landmine and directed tanks against Iraqi forces in his long Army career.

The Lady With The Sparkling Red Hair

Circumstances being what they were at that moment in time, Dusty and Gina were living on skid row in a rehabilitation center for alcoholics. It wasn't the greatest facility, and it wasn't the worst either, they supposed. They had both lived in worse places.

A new study underscores that the physical consequences of alcoholism appear faster and are more severe for women than for men By Dirk Hanson

My Own 28 Days - Diary Of An Alcoholic Part 3

It was 3 am and I was not happy. I had been wheeled up to 5-E and I was waiting for the on-duty PA to come and talk to me with the nurse. I was tired. I was hungry. I had no shoes. The tired and hungry thing I could deal with. Not having my shoes was really, REALLY pissing me off.

It would appear that nobody wants to use their mouth anymore to get drunk. Much to their parents' dismay, teens have long been known to secretly consume alcohol, and the latest method reportedly has them doing so with tampons and bongs. "[It's a] quicker high, they think it's …

Nature's love drug, oxytocin, could hold the key to helping alcoholics overcome their addiction. Australian scientists have launched clinical trials involving alcoholics using oxytocin nasal sprays, to see if extra doses of the hormone can make drugs less appealing. The trial …

n an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the study may contribute to improving the treatment of stomach ulcers.

Have you hugged a public servant today?

There has been quite a bit of public vitriol directed at our public servants lately.  In particular, police, firefighters and teachers.  Mostly because of what is perceived as "lavish pensions and benefits".  Personally, I feel they aren't paid enough.

W, Just Exactly, TF is This?

 My head is so spun between therapy, the women I work with and the man I live with that I don't know what to think about this.  I smoke.  I smoked when my husband met me back in 1999.  Not much has changed since then, except that I smoke more than I used to.&n …

You read the headline correctly. It appears that Lindsay and Dina have a quite unusual mother-daughter relationship.

A seemingly intoxicated moose has been discovered entangled in an apple tree by a stunned Swede. Per Johansson says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbor's garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look.

Today has been a sad and embarrassing day for me. I have just discovered that one of my lifelong musical heroes, Scots musician Gerry Rafferty passed away in January 20011.

 If you're taking good care of your children, sleeping with your husband, feeding everyone well and keeping your house clean, your friends and spouse will not consider you an alcoholic.

The biological model of addiction suggests that addiction is an inherited trait, similar to a genetic disease. It largely eliminates the idea that morality or societal influences are the main drivers of addiction.

A measure signed into law today by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will define beer as an alcoholic beverage for the first time in Russia, and finally put limits on where and when the brew can be sold.