44% of student respondents to a 1993 Harvard School of Public Health survey drank heavily at least once in the two weeks prior to the survey. Drinking and driving accidents are the No.1 killer of Americans aged 18-24. 90% of all vandalism, fights and assaults (verbal, physical and sexual) occur after one or both parties have been drinking. One...

I just read over the recovering Alcoholic Q/A. Do you believe this applies to eating disorders as well? I need some very drastic help in this area and would appreciate your guidance. My situation is in relation to simply over-eating and eating for comfort and almost any situation... Advice: Yes it applies to almost every obsessive compulsive kind...

One year ago in August I lost my husband to a heart attack. I had no desire to date or even to get involved with anyone. I have 2 children (girls) ages 12 and 17, and a home based business of my own. My computer was struck by lighting and in the process of getting it fixed, I met a technician. We have been dating ever since and have really started...

I am becoming very miserable in my marriage. My husband drinks and it has been a problem for a long time. He spouts out obscenities and accuses me of having an affair, calls me obscene names and tells me he'll take away my daughters (in front of them). All of this over some irrelevant disagreement or reproach from me–how do you have time to have...

Every night I get a phone call from my husband. He drinks and then drives home drunk. I cannot get him to quit, and I feel like its my fault because I have problems myself. He is very gifted, but sometimes sits at home very sad, like there is something missing in his life. Advice: The first thing you need to do is to begin going to Alanon meetings....

When it comes to the most common causes of death for people under 40, most people would think of cancer, heart attacks or strokes. But that is a misconception. I’d like to introduce you to what we family physicians call “the beer commercial syndrome.” Society drifts into it without knowing, and it’s definitely best to get over this phase...