When someone you’re close to is struggling with an alcohol addiction, you know that he or she is not the only one in pain. You worry about the person. You are anxious for your loved one to seek help, and it hurts to think about what could happen if he or she doesn’t. Think of [...]
Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
College is a time of furthering education, gaining independence and making new friends. But it is also known for tailgating before football games, binge drinking and barhopping, all of which include massive amounts of alcohol intake by 18- to 24-year-olds. As a result, classes are missed. Studying is backlogged. Grades drop. Even when students promise [...]
How many times have you regretted drinking too much? Nursing a wicked hangover the next day is enough to swear off alcohol but soon enough, you go and do it again. A company from Arizona has come up with the instant cure for drunkenness and hangovers, cleverly called “Sober Shot.” The “Miracle” Potion? What exactly [...]
Bill Bayno has had a career in college and pro basketball, as player and coach, but struggled with alcoholism for much of it. Now an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves, he has 11 years sober. Bayno is speaking out about his past issues with alcohol, his ability to be a functioning alcoholic and when [...]
There are so many alcohol rehab centers that treat addicts, but what about treatment for those who are also affected by alcohol abuse? Family, friends and co-workers can all be negatively impacted by alcoholism. Excessive drinking cost the United States $224 billion in 2006, including known costs of health care expenses, lost productivity and car [...]
Do you have marriage trouble and think that alcohol addiction may be to blame? When one spouse is an alcoholic, every family member is affected with emotions of all kinds. Fear, resentment, anxiety and depression are just a few symptoms from the emotional strain of alcoholism in the family. Children are living in an unpredictable [...]
The ability to forgive is sometimes considered a divine skill. You know this especially if you have ever been approached by someone who is making amends. Jerry Brown’s mother attends her son’s funeral with the man who killed him: a sobering display of forgiveness for a drunk driving death. Josh Brent will have to live [...]
If you could do something to prevent breast cancer, would you? For many women who struggle with alcoholism, intellectually the answer is easy, but emotionally it may be more difficult because one of the risk factors for breast cancer is alcohol consumption. Alcohol has become a socially acceptable way of destressing and for many women [...]
I just love how holidays have somehow become synonymous with excessive alcohol drinking. Labor Day, Memorial Day, New Year’s, Christmas Day…OK maybe not Christmas but you get the point. Why is our society so fixated on an extra day off of work meaning that we should overindulge in alcohol? Excessive amounts of alcohol consumed by [...]
How many embarrassing photos do you have of yourself when you were clearly making all your best decisions drunk? Apparently Prince Harry decided that it was totally fine for his newly made girlfriends, from the hotel pool, to bring their cell phones in the room while they played strip poker. It’s always funny looking back [...]
