What is it About Alcoholism?

I have a good friend who used to be an extraordinary general manager of  top restaurant, but who now is unemployed and hiding because he was found passed out behind the bar of the restaurant he had just opened himself. Just another example of how alcoholism ruins lives in a major way, I guess.  The saddest thing about it is of ...

Alcoholism’s Thin Line

According to current diagnostic guides, alcohol use disorders are split into two categories: alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence, or alcoholism. But recently, an argument has been made for adding a third category classified as hazardous drinking. Hazardous drinking has been defined as drinking more than the recommended amount. So, what is the difference between alcohol abuse and hazardous drinking and ...

Alcoholism and the Functional Alcoholic

Everyone probably knows someone who knows someone or heard of someone who is an alcoholic and down on his or her luck, but alcoholism effects many more people that we may know. It's not the bums on the corner and those who have literally lost everything who have problems with alcohol, but also those who drink every single day ...