Recent Alcoholism Articles page 7

Guardian Unlimited - The breakthrough came in 1987 with Slave, a hugely popular reggae album whose title track warned of the perils of alcoholism. It made Dube a household name in South Africa and sold 500,000 copies worldwide following a distribution deal with the New ...

Times Online - The report from the Office for National Statistics on health trends since the 1970s will also reveal just how badly “casual alcoholism” has hit the British population. Thirty years ago death rates for men and women were about two per 100,000, the ...

Morning Call - Born in Fresno into a family with eight children, all very close in age, he recalls a young life marred by alcoholism, sexual abuse and neglect. ''We were all taken away from our mother and put into foster homes. I had to come to terms with living ...

Courier-Post - Thus far, public response has been positive, and our legislation has been endorsed by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, which cited our bill as a way to discourage underage drinking, noting that young people who begin ...

Detroit Free Press - We haven't gotten to the crazed two-bottle-a-day alcoholism and the death of the son he barely knew, Conor, whom he immortalized in a song first given to a movie about junkies. By the end of the book, he can barely be bothered to recall the last ...

American Reporter - Bob asked one of the more senior AA members to act as his "sponsor," a sober alcoholic who might have been dry for years and who knew the ropes of alcoholism. Sponsors had all been there, in the pit of alcoholism, and had themselves benefited from ...

Akron Beacon Journal - He suffered through a lengthy, epic battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. In 1991, Clapton's 4-year-old son, Conor, died after falling out of a hotel room window (inspiring one of his most popular songs, Tears in Heaven ). ''I wanted to wait ...

Tulsa World - His marriage to Boyd coincided with a long period of alcoholism, and his behavior often appears thoughtless and cruel. But Boyd, now a photographer who has exhibited her work in London and San Francisco, has left recrimination behind her. “I ...

St. Petersburg Times - Before that, his marriage had fallen apart, and he struggled with alcoholism. With nothing else left, he decided to find his brother, who he heard had been living somewhere around Brooksville. So Bell, who is in his 50s, walked from Texas to Florida ...

Observer - Since he died, raving insanely in a hospital bed, Poe's demise has been the subject of a multitude of theories, ranging from murder to mugging to alcoholism to political skulduggery to catching an infectious disease such as rabies. Now a leading ...