When a male substance abuser seeks help, there often is a wife to care for the children.  When a woman addict voluntarily places her children in foster care - a foster home or institution - it's frequently because she is a single parent...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is caused when alcohol drunk by the mother during pregnancy crosses the placenta, enters the unborn child's bloodstream, and interferes with normal biological development. Extensive birth defects are associated with FAS.

Alcohol abuse can be a tricky term to use, considering that 'abuse' can have diferent meanings to different people.
However, it is often understood as referring to the excessive use of alcohol, and causing problems or negative consequences...

Article discusses some alcohol statistics and the poisoning process of binge drinking.

Metabolizing and detoxifying alcohol is almost entirely the responsibility of the liver So it’s not unexpected that overly more drunkenness hurts the liver more than any new place in the system...

Drinking can have quite a cost and the price tag involves more than money.
Alcohol is an expensive proposition and abusing it makes the endeavor even more so...

Alcohol is a dangerous substance by all accounts! It can be fun in certain situations...

The differance between heavy drinking and alcoholism is based not on the amount that is being drunk but on the way, the drinking is affecting the life of the drinker...

There are approximately 10 million alcoholics in the United States. On top of this staggering figure you can also add 20 million alcohol abusers...

1 – Alcohol do we really need it. People use substances such as alcohol they like the way it makes them feel...

What causes college students to abuse alcohol? The answers are probably many, but the simplest answer is this: Because they can...