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FILE - This June 7, 2003 file photo shows a man drinking a beer standing with other Native Americans on the streets of Whiteclay, Neb.The Oglala Sioux Tribe announced Thursday, Feb. 6, 2012, that it will file a $500 million federal lawsuit against some of the nation's largest beer distributors, alleging that they knowingly contributed to the chronic alcoholism, health problems and other social ills on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The lawsuit also targets the four beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town (pop. 11) on the South Dakota border that sells about 5 million cans of beer per year. (AP Photo/William Lauer, File)

Tribe suing beer companies for alcohol problems

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 6:29pm

LINCOLN, Neb. -- An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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Wilson's war: Substance abusers receiving financial help for Department of Workforce Services

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 8:09am

SALT LAKE CITY — A Kaysville lawmaker is proposing that every person who files for financial help from the Department of Workforce Services be required to take a written test to determine if they are addicted to drugs or alcohol.

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Alcohol's impact affected by genes, studies show

Lee Bowman Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 11:31am

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken from me," Winston Churchill once observed.

And there's plenty of evidence that light to moderate alcohol consumption can have health benefits for many people but carries grave risks for others. The trick lies in figuring out just who falls in which pathway.

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Alcohol use linked to cancer

Eryn Brown Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 5:22pm

LOS ANGELES -- How much alcohol is it really safe to drink?

Possibly less than you've been led to believe, say French researchers writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

In a piece published Monday, Paule Latino-Martel, a cancer researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, and co-authors argued that many countries' alcohol consumption guidelines -- which typically define a moderate, "sensible" level of drinking designed to help consumers drink safely -- fail to take into account long-term risks associated with drinking.

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Kevin Leavitt tosses pizza dough at Fat Boys Pizza and Pasta in Ogden on Tuesday.

Tossing and turning: Pizza helps man turn his life around

Dana Rimington, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 10:37pm

OGDEN -- Not many people can credit their ability to toss pizza dough for their recovery from alcoholism, but Kevin Leavitt can and does.

Coming to Utah from Las Vegas wasn't exactly in Leavitt's plans, especially after he spent many years building a successful career in the restaurant business.

His life came to a crashing halt four and a half years ago when he found himself homeless and addicted to alcohol.

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Problem drinking in teen years not a good omen for the future

Los Angeles Times, Shari Roan

Last updated Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 6:07pm

LOS ANGELES -- Drinking problems in adolescence may be passed off as "just a phase" that a person may outgrow. But a study suggests instead that problem drinking in someone at age 18 helps predict alcoholism at age 25.

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Alcohol use curbed by anti-nausea medication

Los Angeles Times, Shari Roan

Last updated Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 8:23pm

LOS ANGELES -- Alcoholics who were given a medication approved for quelling nausea were able to cut back on their alcohol intake, researchers reported this week. The medication, ondansetron (Zofran), could become a readily available therapy for helping some alcoholics become abstinent.

The study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, is based on research on a gene known as 5-HTT that is important to the serotonin system of the brain. Certain variants of this gene can increase the risk of psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and addiction.

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Local woman receives national attention for Women's Retreat House

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 8:43pm

MORGAN -- A local woman is receiving national attention for her volunteer efforts to help give a second chance to women after they recover from alcohol and drug addiction.

Cathie McGregor Critchlow has received the Good Neighbor Award from the National Association of Realtors for her work with Ogden's Women's Retreat House.

The founder and president of the organization's board of directors, Critchlow was featured on the cover of last month's National Realtor Magazine.

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(KRISTIN HEINICHEN/Standard-Examiner) Carolyn Lawrence poses in front of the Ogden Tabernacle on Thursday. Lawrence has found the strength to overcome her addiction to alcohol through returning to the LDS Church. She recently started a business at the Quilted Bear in Ogden.

A new life - Ogden woman outlines spiritual path that led to recovery from alcoholism

JaNae Francis, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, October 8, 2010 - 4:57pm

A new life

By JaNAE FRANCIS

Standard-Examiner staff jfrancis@standard.net

OGDEN -- An Ogden woman is looking forward to what she says is her new life as she goes with members of her family today to receive her endowment in the Draper temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Carolyn Lawrence, 56, said the road to achieving this goal has been a long one.

An alcoholic since age 13, Lawrence said she struggled for years to overcome her addiction, which only seemed to get worse over time as it medicated her emotions and her back pain.

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