The drinking age in America is currently 21, and it has been for several decades, after being raised from 18. Despite the legal status of alcohol for teenagers, there is widespread alcohol abuse by this age group. Not surprisingly, high school and college students continue to be one of the worst offenders of underage alcohol…
Nowadays, addiction medicine and treatment is big business. There are a plethora of treatment centers, methods, and trends which promise to create a lasting recovery. However, again and again we see a large amount of patients relapse after unsuccessful treatment sessions. If you are one of the many people who has tried and failed to…
Alcohol addiction isn’t a discriminating disease. It can affect anyone who abuses alcohol regardless of demographic background. That said, alcoholism does disproportionately affect men more than women. This makes specific centers for alcohol rehab for men fairly commonplace. Men often deal with problems such as addiction much differently. Due to this, San Francisco alcohol rehab…
One of the most common substance abuse problems in America is binge drinking. Despite its social acceptance and commonplace, binge drinking is, in fact, a form of alcohol abuse. There are a variety of ways in which alcohol abuse takes place that society never thinks twice about. Much of this is due to the legal…