August 18, 2006
The recent USA Today/HBO Family Drug Addiction poll finds that only about half of Americans who have had a family member with an addiction say their family member ever sought treatment. However, most who sought treatment got better or completely ...
August 11, 2006
Gallup recently conducted a survey in conjunction with USA Today and HBO to examine the effect alcohol and drug addictions have on the immediate families of past or present addicts. The chief factors in these addictions, according to the family ...
August 11, 2006
A recent Gallup Poll of U.S. adults who have had a family member addicted to drugs or alcohol finds that most of these people believe that addiction is a disease. Respondents believe the disease is both a physical and psychological disease, but ...
July 31, 2006
Gallup finds the percentage of Americans who consume alcohol holding steady, but compared with a decade ago, U.S. drinkers are drinking more frequently and drinking more drinks each week. Drinkers are now slightly more likely to report that beer ...
February 6, 2006
Americans have a long way to go if they want to catch up with Britons in alcohol consumption, though not too far to catch up with Canadians. Women drink substantially less often than men in all three countries. Age differences are minimal in ...
July 22, 2005
Gallup finds that 21% of drinkers -- equivalent to 13% of all adult Americans -- admit that they sometimes drink too much. This is down from the early 1990s, particularly among young adults. However, similar to the steady rate of alcohol-related ...
July 18, 2005
For the first time in more than a decade of Gallup polling, there is a statistical tie between wine and beer as the alcoholic beverage adult drinkers say they drink most often. One might assume that beer drinkers have merely switched over to ...
