Recent Alcohol Abuse Articles

Salem News - Dear Dr. Levy: Have the rates of alcohol problems been increasing? With all the stress in the world, I would think alcohol problems are probably getting bigger and bigger. A: You ask an interesting question. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse ...

Gloucester Daily Times - It has been said many times that the best protection for minors from drug or alcohol abuse is a healthy relationship with their parents. The same is true of the Internet. Anything the schools can do to promote those healthy relationships will do more ...

Health 24 - Behavioural stress is a major factor in extending the "vicious cycle" of alcoholism, said lead author Markus Heilig, clinical director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. That's because alcohol deprivation causes depression ...

Portsmouth Herald - Winnacunnet School Board member Venus Merrill said drugs and alcohol abuse is a real problem. She said the school and the community needs to do more. Last year, 17 student-athletes were suspended from their team for drinking at a party. In 2006, a ...

The Independent - Campaigns about the dangers of alcohol abuse to health and wellbeing may eventually replicate the success of warnings about the hazards of tobacco. But the process could take decades, and until then the police and the hospitals will be in ...

Greenville News - As a recovering alcoholic myself, the grandson of a decorated World War II veteran and fellow alcoholic as well, I am somewhat biased on the subject of alcohol abuse and "reward." A combination of serving in the military, stress and mental anguish ...

West Online - Indigenous councils have agreed to give up their liquor licences as part of a new $65 million deal with the Queensland government to prevent alcohol abuse. Premier Anna Bligh met in Cairns on Friday with the mayors of 18 indigenous communities in the ...

ABC News - Markus Heilig, clinical director of the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), says standard drug treatments to help curb drinking urges worked by reducing the pleasure that alcoholics get from drinking. This drug takes a ...

BBC News - Among the issues being discussed were inter-governmental measures to tackle drug and alcohol abuse, as well as suicide and child protection. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said cocaine was becoming a major problem across the UK and the Republic of Ireland ...

BBC UK News - Mr Morgan said cutting fatalities from alcohol abuse was a leading priority for the Welsh Assembly Government. He addressed the British-Irish Council in Dublin, where tackling substance misuse is top of the agenda. The council was set up following ...