When I was in high school, my parents laid down a few ground rules about exactly how “liberating” my teenage emancipation was going to be. No driving without an adult in the car past dark, no staying ...

I teach a course called "Chemical Dependency Issues," and I am always surprised by how little my students have been taught about the effects of alcohol. They have been told to “drink responsibly” ...

Not pro-legislation, just a perception that drinking alcohol wouldn’t occur in a civilized society. Here is my rationale: Alcohol creates a social bias. Some aren't allowed, and others can't exist ...

Peter Hendricks, Ph.D., professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, and Kevin Madden, doctoral candidate in the UAB Medical/Clinical ...

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Drink responsibly is a myth and there is no safe level of drinking, according to the North East campaign group Balance. The group issued the warning ahead of World Cancer Day on February 4, ...

Editor's note: This comment came in response to Pete Schulberg's oped, "Changing Oregon's culture of underage drinking." Pete, I'm a certified chemical dependency counselor in Oregon (I'm not working ...