Alcoholism Blog

State drunk driving laws that allow the immediate suspension of a driver's license for failing a breath test save 800 lives a year and serves as a deterrent to ... Read More

A study of sixth, seventh and eighth graders suggests that if parents want to keep alcohol away from these 11-14 year old students the best place to start is ... Read More

Less than a week after actress Lindsay Lohan completed a 45-day stay in a residential treatment facility and turned herself in to face drunk driving charges in Beverly Hills, ... Read More

Developed in 1971, the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST) is one of the oldest and most accurate alcohol screening tests available, effective in identifying dependent drinkers with up to ... Read More

Most of the people who use illegal drugs in the United States and approximately 15 million heavy drinkers hold full-time jobs where they pose serious problems for the health, ... Read More

"One guy said he had been sober for 12 years, and that went right over my head. Another said he and been sober for two weeks, and that ... Read More

Most first-time drunk driving offenders have high rates of other substance abuse as well as other psychiatric disorders, according to a new Yale University School of Medicine study. These ... Read More

Any time a new study claims there is a pill that will help people stop drinking it makes national headlines, because currently there is no cure for alcoholism and ... Read More

Underage youth are 239 times more likely to view advertisements selling alcohol than a "responsibility" ad designed to educate about the dangers of underage drinking, according to a new ... Read More

The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is used to detect alcohol problems experienced in the last year. It is one of the most accurate alcohol screening test available, ... Read More

Teens who use alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana while they are alone are more likely to experience health and behavioral problems as young adults, even more so than their peers ... Read More

In a study called Project CHOICES, University of Virginia Health System researchers found that a few nonjudgemental, nonconfrontational counseling sessions had a significant impact on women at high risk ... Read More

If you are traveling without your laptop and need to find a meeting in the city you are visiting, now you can find one on your cell phone. Thanks ... Read More

A new resource kit is designed to help pregnant Native American women avoid the harm of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The The American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Resource Kit is ... Read More

People who use cocaine and amphetamine may be at a higher risk of having a stroke, according to a study of three million hospital discharges in Texas. Amphetamine use ... Read More

Dispelling the myth of the typical alcoholic, researchers have identified five subtypes of alcoholics from a study of 1,484 people who met diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence. The surprising ... Read More