I come from a family of alcoholics. Sarah, my first cousin, was the most recent to die of complications from alcoholism, at age 41. Before her, seven people in our extended family, including her ...

Heavy alcohol consumption, smoking and exercising could lead to a decline in health in people as young as 36 years old, a new study has found. "The team analyzed participants’ mental and physical ...

Social drinking can sit on the slippery slope to alcoholism. People - and culture - can sometimes intertwine solitary drinkers with addiction. However, alcoholism often starts out when drinking among ...

Experts say alcohol causes more deaths than other drugs combined, with withdrawal symptoms among the worst of any substance ...

Here is the thing: people don’t crave a drink because they have a “drinking problem”; they crave a drink because they have a ...

Dear Amy: I married my high school sweetheart. We’ve been together for 50 years. We had a great sexual relationship until five years ago. My husband has a serious drinking problem which I have ...

Researchers have said these behaviors can affect a person's health before they reach 40, according to a new study Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...