Many surgeons recommend giving up smoking, alcohol, or drugs before surgery, but researchers have found this may also ...

Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms occur with ADs and many non-addicting medications.

Families, sheriffs and providers agree: jail is often the default response to addiction, even as withdrawal can become a ...

If your go-to drink of choice in social situations is an espresso martini, Jack and Coke or Red Bull vodka, you may want to ...

IT IS described as the most wonderful time of the year, but Christmas, with its holiday drinking, comes with health risks, ...

Try gentle movement, relaxation or a mocktail to unwind without alcohol.

In a country where faith shapes daily life—in markets, classrooms, offices, and streets—the December season arrives with a ...

An investigation into nearly 100 Illinois jail cases shows repeated medical failures that left people injured, suffering or ...

Guatemalan widow shared a hug, a tickle and these words with her husband: "Cheer up." It was the last time she saw him alive ...

The gas-station drug’s prevalence in workplace screenings is now “higher than all the other opiates we test for combined.” ...

Although similar, there are telling differences between food and alcohol addiction. For example, over time, a person builds ...

Doctors have reminded Brits of the signs and symptoms of bowel cancer and other big killers, such as heart problems, as ...