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 drinking problem, according to research ...

Social drinking can sit on the slippery slope to alcoholism. People - and culture - can sometimes intertwine solitary drinkers with addiction. However, alcoholism often starts out when drinking among ...

Since we look at anyone in treatment as “an addict” and “addiction” has no cure we are telling every person who believes they have a problem with alcohol or drugs that there is no cure for their ...

Dear Amy: I married my high school sweetheart. We’ve been together for 50 years. We had a great sexual relationship until five years ago. My husband has a serious drinking problem which I have ...

Having gone from diabetes treatment to weight-loss miracle, GLP-1s are already blockbuster drugs. Now a new study in The Lancet shows that GLP-1s help with another common lifestyle disease: ...

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 abuse disorder” will overdiagnose young ...

Dear Annie: Recently you printed a letter from a man whose wife has an alcohol problem. I had a problem with drinking more than I should, but a year ago, I learned what alcohol was doing to my body ...