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It took a lot of eggnog but award-winning journalist Christine Stapleton has finally figured out how to enjoy the holidays despite her mental illnesses: depression, bipolar and alcoholism. She shares her holiday experiences and much more in her new book, Hoping for a happy ending: A journalist's story of depression, bipolar and alcoholism.
A Scottish woman escapes an abusive relationship and heads to Chicago, where she meets a suicidal hitman and an alcoholic detective. 21 Albemarle St...
A former bank executive who is an admitted alcoholic was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for stealing $611,590 from the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association in Chester Township while serving as its volunteer treasurer.
ELYRIA — Creativity flowed as freely as the liquid treats at Thursday’s Zero Proof Mix-Off at Lorain County Community College. Organizations from around Lorain County competed in an alcohol-free drink contest sponsored by the Lorain County General Health District to promote celebrating this holiday season responsibly. The Ohio Highway Patrol again carried top honors from the judges, [...]
In her bestselling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle, American journalist Jeannette Walls recalled a childhood that gave dysfunction a new name. As she was raised by an alcoholic father and an eccentric mother, there were times when Wall and her siblings slept in cardboard boxes and subsisted on margarine and cat-food. How such untamed characters slipped under society's net is partially explored by ...
Excessive alcohol consumption greatly increases the body's need for thiamin (vitamin B-1). Increased need for B-1 along with a poor-quality diet explains the erratic eye movements, staggering gait and deranged mental functions commonly seen in serious alcoholism.
Washington, Dec 3 : A new Australian study suggests that parental encouragement leads to alcoholism in teenagers.
Economic downturn causes demand for affordable drug and alcohol rehab programs. Mountainside in Connecticut cites a sharp increase in demand for its services and attributes stress caused by economic crisis which has led to an increase in alcoholic binge drinking, drug abuse and marital problems.
Drug abuse in the workplace has reached "epidemic" proportions, says the SA Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.
Facts about anti-addiction medications for alcoholism
Isabelle Jessich's first foe was alcoholism. Her second was the court system that kept her from returning home.
