Social drinking can sit on the slippery slope to alcoholism. People - and culture - can sometimes intertwine solitary drinkers with addiction. However, alcoholism often starts out when drinking among ...

Dear Amy: I married my high school sweetheart. We’ve been together for 50 years. We had a great sexual relationship until five years ago. My husband has a serious drinking problem which I have ...

Dear Annie: Recently you printed a letter from a man whose wife has an alcohol problem. I had a problem with drinking more than I should, but a year ago, I learned what alcohol was doing to my body ...

I married my high school sweetheart. We’ve been together for 50 years. We had a great sexual relationship until five years ago. My husband has a serious drinking problem which I have tolerated for ...

Since we look at anyone in treatment as “an addict” and “addiction” has no cure we are telling every person who believes they have a problem with alcohol or drugs that there is no cure for their ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When picturing a “typical” alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the ...

There are ways to broach the topic successfully — it’s all about time, place and tone. By Emily Schmall The holidays are a time of excess. Too much food. Too much drink. And sometimes an alcohol ...

Proposed changes to the psychiatric profession’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, have caused a recent uproar, with critics worried that the new label of “alcohol abuse disorder” will overdiagnose young ...

A bunch of the boys from Judd & Detweiler, a Washington printing firm, decided to get together one weekend last fall for an oyster roast. They scarcely had their schooners of beer operating before, ...

When picturing a "typical" alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the authors of a new ...

Drinking and substance use in middle-aged professionals recently made headlines. In a study that gained widespread media attention, nearly 30 percent of middle-aged adults reported having five or more ...

Alcohol companies are using opaque digital marketing strategies that end up targeting problem drinkers on social media, according to new research. A study by the University of Queensland (UQ) and the ...