According to CNN, Afghan opium is responsible for 100,000 deaths each year. There are about 15 million people using heroin, morphine or opium around the world. This represents a $65 billion market for these drugs also funding terrorism and insurgencies. Over the past four years, the Taliban has raised between $450 and $600 million by [...]

The National Institutes of Health has designed a questionnaire to identify symptoms of alcohol abuse and dependence. According to NIH, a positive  to just one question may indicate alcohol abuse and answering yes to three or more suggests alcohol dependence or alcoholism. Here are the questions. In the past year, have you: Had times when [...]

The retiring “baby-boomer” population is entering treatment for addiction and alcoholism at a higher rates than the rest of the population. It is expected that the number of seniors with drug and alcohol problems will increase by 150 percent by 2020, from 1.7 million in 2001 to 4.4 million in 2020 according to an article [...]

New research shows a link between alcoholism and troubled sleep patterns. The study was published in the October 1st edition of the journal Sleep. According to Dr Ian M. Colrain, of SRI International in Menlo Park, who conducted the study, people who abuse alcohol report Insomnia and other sleep problems even after they quit drinking. [...]