Turning a Blind Eye to Underage Drinking
Just as Twitter and Facebook enabled young revolutionaries to gather together for instant protests, social media has helped modern kids mobilize promptly against snooping grown-ups.
Just as Twitter and Facebook enabled young revolutionaries to gather together for instant protests, social media has helped modern kids mobilize promptly against snooping grown-ups.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 05.14.2012
Just as our interpersonal relationships can differ in terms of intensity, so can our "relationship" with drinking. Moreover, these differences aren't separated by sharp lines; rather, they tend to blend into one another.
Stanton Peele | Posted 04.20.2012
Is there something valuable -- essentially human -- in becoming intoxicated?
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 04.19.2012
Is making alcohol available at the workplace justified by arguments such as long work hours, the blending of work and home life, or the expectation that employees will act responsibly? I would argue that it is not.
Stanton Peele | Posted 04.12.2012
There is a tradition in America of expanding a problem further down the spectrum, a name for which is "problem inflation." One way this is done is to link any signs that people have an incipient problem with the cases of people who suffer the worst forms of that problem.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 04.03.2012
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), drinking among seniors age 50 and older is on the rise. In fact, seniors make up the segment of the population for whom drinking has been increasing most.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 05.26.2012
No one sets out intending to become an "almost alcoholic." Similarly, people do not become almost alcoholics for the same reason. There are many pathways into the almost alcoholic zone, and for that reason there needs to be many solutions.
Posted 03.22.2012
Boston University officials have suspended a sorority at the center of an investigation for alleged hazing. On March 3, BU campus police found thre...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.22.2012
It's 5 a.m., do you know where your children are? For Claire Farrow, 44, and Ian Hogarth, 56, from West Kensington, England, it's much less of a c...
AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.15.2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Guys, when your sweetheart says "No thanks" to sex, do you knock back a few stiff drinks to feel better? Turns out fruit flies do pr...
Deni Carise | Posted 05.02.2012
Cocaine, heroin and now prescription drugs continue to occupy the headlines -- as indeed they should -- but alcohol deserves the same attention. Our nation's alcohol problem may not seem as scandalous, but it's just as serious.
HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012
When Natalie was in rehab last year, she noticed a lot of people on the phone. Many of the other patients at Passages Malibu -- the California trea...
HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.15.2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- Only a few days into his new job as San Francisco's homeless czar, Bevan Dufty already has big ideas. The former Castro District s...
Reuters | Posted 04.08.2012
By James B. Kelleher CHICAGO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. college students seeking treatment for substance abuse are more likely to be hav...
Deni Carise | Posted 03.31.2012
Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently proposed cracking down on alcohol sales in an attempt to curb the city's alcohol abuse problem. It's logical that reducing alcohol availability will in turn reduce sales and decrease use and abuse.
Tim Giago | Posted 03.18.2012
All of my life and the last 34 years as a newspaper publisher, I have fought the damaging effects of alcohol. I terminated the most talented Native American employees that I had because they could not control their taste for alcohol.
Posted 01.12.2012
UCLA researchers have found a compound that can counteract the effects of alcohol, but don't call it revolutionary: some people have known about it fo...
The Huffington Post | Mary Kate Sheridan | Posted 01.12.2012
Next round is on the seniors. A study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC"), reveals that adults over 65 years ...
The Huffington Post | Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 12.19.2011
Who you date could influence how you drink, according to a new study from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The study followed the drinking ...
www.npr.org | Posted 12.12.2011
Many European parents, and some American ones, too, have long figured if they let their kids drink alcohol at home, they'd be less likely to go hog wi...
macon.com | MarketWatch | Posted 12.11.2011
As baby boomers approach their golden years, they are embracing wellness and wine -- two things that don't always go together. While a glass of red...
Posted 11.07.2011
The Boulder County Coroner’s Office confirms that Michael Hoffman, a 21-year-old student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, died last month d...
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 10.02.2011
We mourn Amy Winehouse, -- certainly her family and friends feel a deep loss -- and yet I have to wonder, how did she get to that edge in the first place?
AP | JENNIFER C. KERR | Posted 06.06.2011
WASHINGTON -- Downing five or more alcoholic drinks nearly every day isn't seen as a big problem for many of the nation's teens, says a new report. W...
Limari Colon | Posted 11.17.2011
Alcoholics Anonymous, the largest 12-step program in the world, states alcoholism is a disease. They consider it a dual problem: a physical allergy and a mental obsession.
Linda Flanagan | Posted 05.23.2012