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Task Force Recommends Screening All Adults for Alcohol Misuse
Questions about alcohol use should be a part of regular physical checkups, according to a panel of experts. About 21% of American adults admit that they engage...
Drone Pilots: No Worse Off Than Those Who Actually Fly
A new Pentagon study contrasting the mental-health concerns of pilots who actually climb into the cockpit – as opposed to military drone drivers who sit at desks...
Mindy McCready
'I call my life a beautiful mess and organized chaos ... I think that's really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality.' As a young...
Why Personality May Matter In Preventing Alcoholism
A program that takes personality into account may help to identify and reduce teen drinking rates. Researchers studied 2,643 ninth-graders in England, aged 13...
Revisions to Mental Health Manual May Turn Binge Drinkers into ‘Mild’ Alcoholics
Are you an alcoholic— or just a problem drinker? It may not matter, according to the latest version of the DSM, psychiatry’s diagnostic manual. And now, in a...
It’s a Whale Of An Ale: Portland, Ore’s Rogue Brewery Makes A “Moby Dick” Flavored Beer
Just in time for the holidays: Moby Dick flavored beer
Is the Military Racist?
In the wake of a tragic shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, my heart is particularly torn. As a Hindu, I share a bond with the Sikh faith rooted in Dharma;...
Bet General Amos Loves This
Here’s the latest in the Crazed Commerce Division of We’ll Peddle Whatever We Want and Give Some Money to the Military So Leave Us Alone: According to a press...
College Drinking: Maybe Not a Disorder but Still a Big Problem
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...
The Healthiest Places to Live in the U.S., Ranked
You may pride yourself on having a healthy home and living a healthy lifestyle, but how good-for-you is your neighborhood? You can find out, thanks to the 2012...
What's In Your Canteen, Soldier?
Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began, the days spent by U.S. troops in hospitals for alcohol-related problems have skyrocketed, according to a new...
Two-Question Screen Can Help Doctors Spot Teen Alcohol Problems
Two questions asked during a regular pediatrician's visit could help identify youth with drinking problems, according to a national expert group convened by the...
Do People Really Drink More When the Economy Tanks?
A new study suggests that in hard economic times, people drink more alcohol. Intuitively, it might make sense, but the findings run counter to most previous...
Status: Drunk. Can Facebook Posts Help ID Problem Drinkers?
The next time some blustery college kid boasts on Facebook about how wasted he was last night, don't just roll your eyes. He may be telegraphing he's got a...
Four Loko Lawsuit: Did Caffeinated Alcohol Cause Death?
The family of a 20-year-old Florida man, who shot and killed himself after binging on the caffeinated malt liquor beverage Four Loko is suing the drink's...
Should French Colleges Give Kids Wine Classes?
Wasn't France once the country where newborns received a finger dipped in champagne even before their first taste of mother's milk? Where children learned the...
Italy Starts Cracking Down on Underage Drinking
Roman pub manager Leonardo Leuci has noticed an increasingly popular request from young people who step up to the bar to order a drink: "Make me something...
Stemming the Rise in Global Alcohol-Related Deaths
One in 25 deaths around the world is caused by alcohol consumption, and booze is now as damaging to global health as tobacco was a decade ago, according to a new...
Nation o' Drinkers: Scotland Takes on Alcohol Abuse
There's little affection in a "Glasgow kiss." Typically preceded by some variation of the growled question "Whit ya [expletive] lookin' at?" the term refers to a...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
No one was surprised when Gavin Newsom announced April 21 that he would run for California governor. The young mayor of San Francisco has not tried to hide his...
