To help someone struggling with alcohol, offer non-judgmental words of encouragement, avoid chastising them, and actively ...

Dear Annie: I have a friend I’ll call “Scott.” We have known each other for 15 years or so and have been retired for the last few years. He enjoyed working before he retired due to a plant closure.

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DEAR ABBY: I have known “Sheila” for 30 years. We were once dear friends. She was always a social drinker. Twelve years ago, she lost her husband to cancer and began drinking increasingly heavily.

Julie McFadden, from Los Angeles, claimed, that after cutting out alcohol completely 'my life got worse' and it was then that ...