Alcohol is Killing 15 Australians a Day VIDEO

Alcohol companies should be forced to warn consumers on their labels that alcohol causes cancer and heart disease in the same way cigarette packets do, the Foundation’s chief Michael Thorn says. “The alcohol industry, like the tobacco industry, has long shown itself unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the harms it causes Any potentially harmful product should carry a warning for the consumer. A box of matches does.”

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‘The Insider’ Host Pat O’Brien Recounts Battle With Alcohol Addiction 

Before Pat O’Brien became a fall-down drunk, “The Insider” host lived a life of celebrity riches. Everywhere he turned, it seemed a famous face was smiling back at him. Regarding  Nancy O’Dell, ” She confessed she had never read a book “cover to cover,” he writes, and once boasted to a crowded room that “she knew how to perform oral sex without actual oral sex.”

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Home Stresses Linked  To Alcoholism In National Guard 

Columbia University has found that civilian life stresses – divorce, job loss, legal problems – are more likely to lead to alcohol abuse in returning National Guard soldiers than members of the general public, regardless of whether they had experienced traumatic events on the battlefield or not.

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Why Drugs Are No Longer Cool: Teenagers Are Internet Addicts 

But teenage use of alcohol and drugs has been steadily declining for a decade, and across Europe and the United States. Drugs have fallen out of favour just as social media has increased in popularity and, though it sounds incredible, it seems old-fashioned drug addicts have been replaced by internet addicts.

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Heavy Drinkers Prone to Memory Problems in     Old Age

People who have a history of drinking problems by the time they are middle-aged are more than twice as likely to exhibit memory problems in later life as those who don’t, in a study that followed 6,500 Americans for two decades.  

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How to Tell if You’re  

Too Drunk to Drive

First of all, if you have to ask yourself, the answer is probably “you’re too drunk to drive.” The best answer about how to tell if you’re too drunk to drive is that if you’re asking yourself, you probably are. But in case you need some reassurance, here are our tips. As a responsible adult, you should know your limits when it comes to alcohol, and plan to find alternate transportation as soon as you’ve passed those limits.

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Profits Seen Jumping With Its ‘Holy Grail Of Alcohol Treatment’

Addiction solutions company BioCorRx Inc. (BICX), may see its profits jump from $2.6 million this year to $10.5 million in 2015 and $22.8 million in 2016 as more rehab clinics use its so-called “holy grail of alcohol treatment.” Treatment of both alcohol and opioid addiction is an enormous market in the U.S., where upwards of $23 billion is spent per annum. More than half of Americans have one or more close relatives with alcohol dependency, and nearly 7 million children under the age of 18 live with a parent that struggles with alcohol.

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Authorities Seize Cocaine In Underwear  

of Passenger

For three days, the nation’s leading public health officials, politicians, law enforcement agents, drug treatment counselors, and others gathered in a downtown Atlanta hotel to discuss the national epidemic of opiate prescription drug abuse. The scope of the epidemic is staggering. Several speakers during the third annual National Rx Drug Abuse Summit cited statistics that indicate more than 125,000 people across the country have died in the past 10 years from opiate-related overdoses.

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Santa Barbara Businesses Busted for Selling Booze to Minors

First-time offenders can be fined anywhere between $750 and $3,000, depending on the location’s alcohol sales revenue, Pond explained. Second-time offenders face fines between $2,500 and $20,000, and third-strikers immediately lose their license. Suspension lengths vary by circumstance.

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Zac Efron’s First  

Interview About Rehab  

“I just never want to have to take something again from the outside into me to feel good about myself. To be comfortable in my present skin, that takes a lot of work. It’s just meditation and stopping and slowing down your brain.

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It’s Easy to Overdose  

on Tylenol

Consumer Reports calls out the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for inconsistent and potentially dangerous labeling of acetaminophen painkillers.  If the pain isn’t going away, then continuing to take the medications isn’t going to help, and will only expose you to potentially harmful side effects.

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Alcoholics Helping Alcoholics 

Before this week I had never been to an AA meeting before – and I hope I never attend another again, but if I should have to either by my own failings or those of a family member, I’m happy to say the family environment at the open meeting in Stony Plain’s Serenity Centre was as welcoming as one could hope.

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Consumer Reports Reviews Deadly Pain Pills   VIDEO

Prescription painkillers like OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin can make days bearable if you’re suffering, but they can be as addictive as heroin and just as deadly. Prescriptions have soared 300 percent in the past decade. In fact, Vicodin and its generic, hydrocodone, are now the most commonly prescribed drugs in America. 46 people a day-almost 17,000 people a year-die from overdoses of opioids. 

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Indiana Preparing For Limits On Drug Treatment Meds

Federal law caps the amount of methadone, the most commonly used medication to treat drug addiction, patients can take home. If someone’s been in treatment for at least six months, they can get three doses to take home per week. After a year, they can get 14 days worth of the medication; after two years, 30 days.

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