Category: Alcoholism and other drug addictions

Alcohol and the elderly

Alcohol presents more complications as people age: there are more falls and injuries; alcohol’s effects on memory are often mistaken for Alzheimer; older people take medications that interact poorly with alcohol; alcohol worsens the physical problems of old age; because the liver is usually…

Alcohol and other drug addictions

For a long time now alcoholism has been treated as a chronic, progressive disease by properly trained  professionals. There is really no legitimate debate over alcoholism as a disease, and there is no longer a debate regarding the similarities between alcoholism and other drug addictions. Science is…