Tag - alcoholism

 
 

ALCOHOLISM

Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 30, 2022
A glass half-full approach that is helping alcoholics to quit
Instead of pressuring patients to quit drinking right away, doctors at the hospital set a target with their patients to reduce their alcohol consumption.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 2, 2019
Coming to Japan to escape alcohol is risky, but help is available
When Casey "dropped dead" on his kitchen floor, he realized he hit rock bottom. Luckily, he got the support he needed to get his drinking problem under control.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2017
Drunken monkeys and the evolution of boozing
If alcohol makes you feel sick rather than drunk, you may have a gene mutation that protects you from alcohol impairment and alcoholism.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2014
None for the road: Japan finally takes a sober look at alcohol abuse
With its cultural affinity toward drinking, Japan has long looked the other way when it comes to the negative aspects of alcohol, particularly addiction. But that is changing.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 30, 2014
Dealing with addiction: Japan's drinking problem
We admit we are powerless over alcohol and we need help to break the habit.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 30, 2014
'I blacked out from drinking. ... I wasn't a good parent'
Yumiko Miyata started drinking when she was 15. She was an inherently shy girl and found that alcohol helped her make friends. When people discovered she could hold her liquor, she then became the center of attention. At first she thought it was harmless fun. Eventually, however, her life started spinning out of control.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2014
Tohoku University evicts 105 students from dorm over drinking
Fed up with a litany of poor behavior by drunken students, Tou00adhou00adku University in Miu00adyau00adgi Prefecture has decided to take the unusually harsh step of evicting all 105 residents from a school dorm by the end of September.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2014
With oath, university moves to end students' alcohol woes
A university in Hokkaido will ask its students to sign an oath not to engage in hazardous drinking after several alcohol-related incidents tainted its image.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2013
New drug raises hopes in hard-drinking Japan
A new drug to treat alcoholism has improved the chances of addicts breaking the habit, the director of the nationu2019s largest treatment center says.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2013
Embracing the right medicine for alcoholics
One would think that the arrival of alcohol relapse-preventive medications would be greeted with great enthusiasm, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 17, 2013
American fiction's drunken masters
Rivers run through Olivia Laing's writing — sometimes the real thing, either narrow and innocuous like a backwoods creek or mile-wide like the Mississippi; occasionally streams of memory that flow backwards, and sometimes gushers of tears; always a steady current of liquidly eloquent words.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 7, 2013
U.S. baby boomers kill selves at high rate
Last spring, Frank Turkaly tried to kill himself. A retiree in a Pittsburgh suburb living on disability checks, he was estranged from friends and family, mired in credit card debt and taking medication for depression, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 7, 2013
Processing the bitter to a durable, beautiful form
KICKING THE BLACK MAMBA: Life, Alcohol and Death, by Robert Anthony Welch. Darton, Longman and Todd, 2012, 240 pp., £12.99 (paperback)

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