Alcoholism Blog

Too many people who need treatment are not getting it in the U.S. President Bush's new $200 million Access to Recovery initiative will provide people seeking drug and alcohol treatment ... Read More

More and more teens are using dangerous steriods. The American Medical Association House of Delegates has called for a ban on the sale of over-the-counter dietary supplements containing anabolic steroid-like ... Read More

Finding it difficult to stop smoking? Recovering alcoholics find nicotine more "rewarding" than people who have no history of drinking problems, and probably need special help in trying to quit, ... Read More

Can't make it to a face-to-face meeting? The phenomenal growth of the Internet and the development of its associated technologies have brought support and recovery to many for whom it ... Read More

Anger is a natural emotion, but aggression is a different matter. A University of Georgia study of drinkers' facial expressions of anger finds that drinking alcohol may place those individuals ... Read More

Individuals with a paternal history of alcoholism rate salty solutions as less pleasurable and sour solutions as more intense and less pleasurable than individuals with no paternal history of alcoholism. ... Read More

Get ready for more commercials. A new study that shows teens who see or hear anti-drug ads at least once a day have significantly stronger anti-drug attitudes and are up ... Read More

The results of this study will come as no surprise, but it does provide scientific proof of the phenomenon. Sustained attention to timing-tasks was substantially altered in laboratory rats when ... Read More

There are still people in the U.S. who drink moonshine? Yes, moonshine continues to thrive and according to a physician at the University of Virginia Health System, who studied 51 ... Read More