It’s Red Ribbon Week once again in the U. S. and time to call awareness to the issues surrounding drug and alcohol addiction. The National Family Partnership, who coordinates Red Ribbon Week says that more than 80 million people participate in drug and alcohol prevention commitments during this week, particularly students. Students this week are…

It’s been estimated that addiction costs London $243 million per year and some of this cost is due to the 1,500 homeless people, of which 40-percent are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness. For this population only 360 shelter beds are available on any given night. But, addiction isn’t confined to the…

An anticonvulsant drug used routinely for migraines and seizures may help alcoholics taper off their alcohol addictions without having to go through detoxification. A recent study published in Wednesday’s journal of the American Medical Association, has shown that the drug Topamax helped 15 percent of alcoholics at the height of their drinking binges stop drinking…

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Tatum O’Neal gave advice that she hopes Britney Spears will hear coming from one famous mother who lost her kids due to addiction to another. The 43-year-old Tatum O’Neal outlined her struggles with heroin addiction and the loss of custody of her three children to ex-husband John McEnroe in…