Satyameva Jayate – Alcohol Abuse – Think Before You Drink – You can also visit us at www.satyamevjayate.in – Alcohol consumption is associated with having fun and enjoying life. But excessive, irresponsible drinking takes away that very life itself. Many alcohol addicts have climbed back to normal life, proving that it is possible to live happily without alcohol. Help for alcoholics is available, free, at Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

Should food addiction be classified in similar terms as drug or alcohol addiction?

Filed under: alcohol abuse

This categorisation might allow food addiction to be classified in similar terms to drug or alcohol addiction in the future. Such an outcome could result in changes in the clinical treatment of obesity and public policy surrounding the obesity epidemic …
Read more on Medical Xpress

 

Heavy drinking rewires brain, increasing susceptibility to anxiety problems

Filed under: alcohol abuse

The study, which was published online on Sept. 2, 2012 by the journal Nature Neuroscience, was conducted by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and University of North Carolina's (UNC's) Bowles Center for …
Read more on The Guardian Nigeria

 

Better game plan needed for addiction treatment

Filed under: alcohol abuse

Advances in neurology and genetics over the last two decades have helped convince most researchers that drug and alcohol abuse is a chronic illness. But much of the public, politicians, and even physicians still see it as a moral failing, a belief that …
Read more on Philadelphia Inquirer