New guidelines are redefining addiction in a revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Many people who suffer from alcoholism struggle for years to get sober. Now, the makers of an herbal product say that they can cut cravings, while still letting alcoholics have the occasional drink.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has received grants totaling $2.1 million from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Robert W. Williams will use the money over the next five years to study how increased stress predisposes people to addiction and alcoholism. Williams, a professor in the departments of anatomy and neurobiology and ...

Twenty million more Americans –including 40 percent of all college students— could be considered alcoholics by this time next year....