Teens Under Pressure

The percentage of teens who say they feel pressure to:

Get good grades: 44 Get into college: 32 Fit in socially: 29 Use drugs or alcohol: 19 Be sexually ...

Anne Heche Runs from Shame

"I did a lot of things in my life to get away from what had happened to me. I drank, I smoked, I did drugs, I had sex…. I did anything I could to get ...

Drinking Alone

A Russian company is trying to help its customers who drink alone. The chatty product is a cap for a vodka bottle that toasts and giggles when twisted. ...

Alcohol: America's Pervasive Problem

A policy-research group called Drug Strategies has produced a report that calls alcohol "America's most pervasive drug problem." It claims that alcohol-related ...

Max Lucado Confesses Struggle

Author and pastor Max Lucado said that giving up beer helped him get closer to God. Lucado said, "I come from a family of alcoholism. If there's anything ...

Movies Influence Behavior

According to a study published in Effective Clinical Practice, teens whose parents restrict them from watching R-rated movies are one-third as likely ...

Alcohol Linked to Sexual Violence

During the conference, Dangerous Liaisons: Substance Abuse and Sexual Behavior, sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia ...

Hard-Living Grandfather Denies Sin

My mother's grandfather was a coalminer in the hills of eastern Kentucky. She called him Grampa Joe. By all accounts he lived hard, worked hard, and drank ...

Jack Bivans Unshackled

For decades Jack Bivans has been one of the radio voices on Unshackled!, the radio theater produced by Chicago's Pacific Garden Mission for over 50 years. ...

"Smoke Signals": Sin Impacts Children

Smoke Signals, a movie written by a Native American, concerns two friends, Victor (Adam Beach) and Thomas (Evan Adams), who were both saved as infants ...