My book Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights has just been released online. I am overjoyed to share it and hope the Q&A below will help clarify what a ...

There is an important distinction between being "sober" and being in "recovery". The differences are clear to those who have experienced both phases in their healing process from alcoholism. When an ...

About 20% of Americans in the last 30 days have had an episode of heavy drinking. Now, a new study is calling into question the term "functional alcoholic" and taking a closer look at alcohol's real ...

Dear Amy: I am a man in my early-70′s, and I drink too much. I started when I was 16 and have continued my entire life. Five or six cocktails (80 proof) each evening is the norm for me. I haven’t ...

Taylor Swift’s song “Fortnight” is getting a lot of attention for lyrics that include the line “I was a functioning alcoholic.” Swift, who co-wrote the track, hasn’t said whether she’s singing about ...

Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” is here — so let the lyric breakdown begin. In her highly anticipated 11th studio album, Swift dropped 17 tracks at midnight Friday, and then surprised ...

Corporate high-flier Julie Landau beat an alcohol addiction and in the process overcame her bulimia. Now she's helping other women Even after her friends found her passed out on the bathroom floor ...

Taylor Swift hints at once having a drinking problem in her highly anticipated new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she ...