Alcohol-Related Stories

• Bill W's Home Becomes a Cultural Mecca, 07-07
• Bingeing and Boredom.  Western states like Wyoming, Montana and North and
  South Dakota have binge-drinking levels far higher than the national average.
• Dean, Others Indicted Over Student's Drinking Death, 08-07
• Drinkers Have Smaller Brains, Study Says, 05-07
• Gene Variant Increases Risk for Alcoholism Following Childhood Abuse, 06-07.
• Liquor Replacing Beer as Drink of Choice Among Teens: Report, 07-07.
• Little Evidence that Costly Treatment Programs Work, 06-07
• Many Women's Alcohol Problems Elude Diagnosis
• Married Couples Often Share Risk for Problem Drinking, 05-07
• Modest Mouse Drinking Made Cancers Grow Faster, Study Says, 05-07
• SAMHSA reports that localities with the highest rates of past year alcohol
  dependence or abuse among both adolescents and adults (ages 12 and older)
  between 2002 and 2004 were sections of Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North
  Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C.
• Some companies in Japan are using cell phones equipped with breath-testing
  sensors to ensure that employees are not under the influence of alcohol at work.
• U.K. Alcohol Troubles Traced to Low Prices 08-07

• Antidepressants Now Most Prescribed Drugs, 07-07
• Drug Use Widespread, But Treatment Isn't, NIDA Study Says, 05-07
• House Committee Approves Addiction/Mental Health Parity Bill, 07-07
• Montana Meth Project Founder Calls U.S. Drug Policy 'Crazy,' 07-07
• Most Online Drug Sales Illegal, UN Says. Ninety percent of pharmaceuticals sales
  online are made without a prescription, according to the United Nations.
• ONDCP Claims Pot Potency Doubled, 05-07
• Overall Youth Drug Use Down in 2006, But Survey Sees Trouble Brewing with Inhalants, Prescription Drugs, Smoking
• OxyContin Maker Fined $634 Million Over Addiction Claims, 05-07
• Prescription Drug Pushers on the Internet, 05-07
• Study Says Smoking Marijuana Worse for Lungs than Cigarettes, 07-07
• Treatment-Seeking for Drug Use Disorders, 06-07
• U.S. Mayors Declare Drug War a Failure, 07-07

Local Stories (Gallatin County and Montana)

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