Depression doesn’t care if you’re rich or famous, poor or homeless. It doesn’t care if you’re young or old, ordinary or superlatively gifted. Depression cuts across social economic status, is [...]
Summary: The effects of heavy drinking extend beyond those who use alcohol, a new study reports. Each year, one in five American adults are harmed as a result of someone else’s drinking. People [...]
At 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, people are starting to pack into a popular bar calledHarvard & Stonein a hip Los Angeles neighborhood. The chatter gets louder as the booze begins to flow. In [...]
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope. Kendra Rase Cram, a teacher at [...]
In his 40 years of working with people who strugglewith addiction, David Crowe has seen various drugs fade in and out of popularity in Pennsylvania’s Crawford County. Methamphetamine use [...]
First gene associated with cannabis abuse likely affects how people respond to the drug Danish researchers have for the first time identified a gene that increases the risk for cannabis use [...]
An Interview with Dr. Stefanie Carnes By John Lavitt06/18/19 More and more women are getting involved with porn, cybersex, hook-up apps and sexting. Given the technological advances, it’s not [...]
On the night of Dec. 12, 1994, in Madison, Wisconsin, Theresa J. McGovern froze to death in a snow bank. She was 45 years old and the mother of two young girls. That night she walked out of a [...]
When Milly’s father called, he discovered Milly’s dark secret. He tried to be a compassionate and attentive father as she broke down in tears and explained what was going on. Devastated over her [...]
I’d been sober seven months by then. As a recovering alcoholic, I knew how important it was that I made amends to the people I had harmed when I was drinking. God knows, there was a long list of [...]
