April is Alcohol Awareness Month
The National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence has named April Alcohol Awareness Month. 2013 marks the 27th year that the NCADD has run this program which seeks “…to increase public awareness and...
View ArticleAuricular Acupuncture Protocol Eases Withdrawal Symptoms
The National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) auricular protocol has been proven to ease withdrawal symptoms during alcohol and drug detox. At five specific points on the outer ear,...
View ArticleAlcohol Is World’s Third Leading Cause of Death
Last week, The Examiner reported on the results of a large global study by Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health on heavy alcohol intake and alcoholism. The findings were disconcerting, to...
View ArticleTherapy Could Save Thousands
In Europe, as in The States, alcohol dependency is a deadly epidemic. However, across the Atlantic, addicts are less likely to have access to addiction recovery centers that employ psychotherapy – and...
View Article7 Subtle Signs That You’ve Got a Problem with Alcohol
April is Alcohol Awareness Month. As the month comes to a close, we want to remind our readers that there are signs, often discounted, that a person may have a drinking problem. Problem drinkers...
View ArticleMilitary Children More Likely to Engage in Drug Abuse and Binge Drinking
While most studies focus on the effects of deployment on military personnel, a study on the children of deployed military personnel has shown the increased risk of binge drinking and drug abuse when a...
View ArticleThe Taste of Beer, Sans Alcoholic Effect, Triggers Dopamine in Brain
The title says it all and the initial findings are groundbreaking, but not a surprise to many who have known for quite some time that many alcoholics cannot drink even non-alcoholic beer. The findings,...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act Expands Treatment for Addicts in California
Nationwide, 3 million to 5 million people with alcohol and drug problems will become eligible for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act next year. In California, more than 95,000 people with...
View ArticleDrinking Alcohol Tied to Unhealthy Food Choices
In a joint study between the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), the results concluded that people...
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Drug Abuse Rates Soar in the Baby Boomer Population
If you are between the ages of 50-54, you have probably seen the number of your friends and acquaintances using illicit drugs double in the last few years. If you are ages 55-59, you have seen them...
View ArticleSteps for More, and Better, Sleep
Over 70 million Americans sleep poorly or not enough. The causes can be self-inflicted (staying up late to finish a good book or study for finals) or unavoidable (caring for a newborn or sick children,...
View ArticleWhy Does Smoking Cigarettes Make You Want To Drink Alcohol?
We’ve all known for a long time that alcohol and smoking go hand-in-hand and that one seems to cause us to crave the other. But, why? How does that work? We know that alcohol consumption boosts...
View ArticleEmotional Mirrors: Equine Therapy
Just as people become addicted to drugs or alcohol for different reasons, there is always an underlying theme: addicts use to deal with pain. And although all therapies have the same goal, leading an...
View ArticleCollege Women Especially Prone to Binge Drinking
It’s the first week of school at many colleges and universities around the nation. Now let’s be honest – you remember your college days – or at least some of them. How many people can say they attended...
View ArticleBullying Can Have Life-Long Effects
Bullying Makes Victims More Likely to Smoke, Become Ill, and Develop Psychiatric Disorders as Adults “A part of growing up” or “a rite of passage,” bullying used to be dismissed as just something that...
View ArticleAlcoholism and Binge Drinking Cost U.S. Taxpayers $223 Billion a Year
Washington D.C. and New Hampshire Heaviest Drinkers and alcoholism rates in the country. Next month we can expect to see the American Journal of Preventative Medicine publish a study done by the Center...
View ArticleColorado’s Talking Urinals Give Advice to Drunks: Could this Deter Drunk...
A lot of people see and hear things that might not necessarily be real when drinking alcohol. But men in some bar restrooms in Colorado will know that they are hearing is real when their urinal begins...
View ArticleThe Brain on Alcohol Exposed
We can all spot someone at a party who has had too much alcohol to drink. We notice the slurred speech, the trouble walking…maybe they even have a lampshade on their head! But what makes them do these...
View ArticleDrunk Driver Admits in Viral online video: ‘I Killed a Man’
On the night of June 22nd, Matthew Cordle, age 22, committed an act for which he believes he cannot make amends. Matthew is a drunk driver and he killed another person. Does he understand how horrible...
View ArticleHow Much Do We Overpour Wine?
Most of us don’t know all the factors that come into play when we pour of glass of wine. But researchers at Iowa State and Cornwall Universities have opened our eyes recently through a study published...
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