LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Despite several council members concerned that it could increase rates of alcohol abuse and set the county down a “slippery slope,” a proposed change that would allow wineries...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A former prosecutor who said alcohol abuse had a “complete stranglehold” on him was placed on probation after pleading guilty to driving while visibly impaired when he was...

DENVER (AP) — A vintage clothing retailer based in Tucson, Ariz. has cut ties with three of its Colorado stores after dozens of anonymous allegations of employee abuse surfaced on social media...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Chris Kirk won the Korn Ferry Tour’s King & Bear Classic on Saturday at World Golf Village, a year after taking a leave of absence from the PGA Tour to fight alcohol...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University is starting a new initiative focused on the health, safety and well-being of students involved in fraternity and sorority life.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A flight attendant charged with public intoxication after passengers on a Chicago-to-South Bend flight noticed her inebriation has agreed to undergo alcohol abuse...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Alcohol Research Center is getting a $7.5 million grant to continue its work to better understand fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Life expectancy in Wisconsin has dropped for two years in a row fueled by increased deaths from alcohol abuse and opioids, a report released Monday from the nonpartisan...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two years after Nebraska state regulators shuttered four beer stores for selling excessive amounts of alcohol near South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, public health...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan prison workers are facing a mental health crisis that includes much higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal thoughts and alcohol abuse than in the...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A new committee has been formed in Virginia to try to reduce alcohol and drug abuse at the state's colleges and universities.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Complications from chronic alcohol abuse are blamed in the death of a Topeka jail inmate.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge will decide whether the University of Nebraska-Lincoln must turn over any records withheld from a fraternity that was suspended following accusations of hazing, alcohol abuse and inappropriate behavior.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Office of Drug Control Policy has failed to submit a report on how to reduce the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse in West Virginia.

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A University of Illinois report is recommending new efforts to support students in the first weeks of school when sexual assaults are most common, especially among freshman.

The university's second systematic survey of sexual misconduct on campus recommends targeting resources at specific groups who have a higher risk of sexual assault, including the Greek system, LGBTQ community and those with disabilities, The News-Gazette reported.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a Virginia law that allows police to arrest people designated as "habitual drunkards" if they are caught with alcohol, finding that the state has a "legitimate interest" in discouraging alcohol abuse.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An addiction treatment center based in Bismarck is expanding after seeing the demand for drug and alcohol abuse treatment services double in the past five years.

Heartview Foundation announced plans this month to add 16 more treatment beds for men and 15 efficiency apartments at the shuttered Ruth Meiers men's emergency shelter. The organization bought the 12,000-square-foot shelter for $1 million earlier this year.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Alcohol abuse is believed behind a fatal crash in North Carolina's largest city that also sent three people to hospitals.

Charlotte police say the driver of a Ford Ranger pickup truck ignored a red light and turned into an oncoming car early Sunday. Dead at the scene was pickup driver 31-year-old Jose Coronado.

Police say the three 25-year-old occupants of the Nissan Altima that crashed into the pickup suffered minor injuries.

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate in a western Wyoming jail died of complications from chronic alcohol abuse.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's largest provider of drug and alcohol abuse treatment will close its eight facilities early next year, forcing an estimated 5,000 people to find treatment elsewhere.

MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Officials at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, say more than half of the sororities and fraternities on campus violated policy on alcohol abuse and sexual harassment.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio county will allow inmates being released from jail to receive an injection that prevents drug and alcohol abuse relapses.

Franklin County officials say about 520 inmates a year are expected to receive injections of naltrexone, which chemically prevents the high that addicts experience when using.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A new program planned at the University of Mississippi will try to reduce the abuse of drugs and alcohol.

A university news release says the William Magee Center for Wellness Education is set to open in 2018. It is named for a young Ole Miss alumnus who died of an overdose in 2013 while trying to overcome drug addiction.

Donors have given more than $500,000, and another $850,000 is pledged.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The city of Jackson is settling a lawsuit by the Justice Department by allowing group homes for people recovering from drug or alcohol abuse.

City and federal lawyers on Wednesday jointly asked U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to approve the settlement.

The Justice Department sued in September, saying Jackson was discriminating against disabled people by trying to shut down a group home run by Urban Rehab.

PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — A Port Clinton mother's favorite saying is: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

So after Bobbie Jo Lowe's daughter, Alexis Kohlman, died in January from an infection caused by drug abuse, Lowe decided to open the first women's recovery home in Port Clinton. The home, called Alexis House, will help women struggling with addiction reintegrate into society.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An advocacy group estimates drug and alcohol abuse cost New Hampshire $2.36 billion in 2014 in lost productivity, health care and strains on the criminal justice system.

A Monday report released by New Futures shows the growing economic toll of the crisis — up more than $50 million from the two previous years — as well as a growth in the number of people seeking treatment under provisions in former President Barack Obama's health care law.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down a Wisconsin law that allowed the state to detain pregnant women suspected of drug or alcohol abuse, saying the 1998 law meant to protect developing fetuses was unconstitutionally vague.

WAITE PARK, Minn. (AP) — Leaders of a new Minnesota school that helps students struggling with alcohol abuse are asking lawmakers for funding.

Seven students have been treated so far at the McKinley Recovery School, which is in its first year in Waite Park, the St. Cloud Times (http://on.sctimes.com/2n1AkWA ) reported. It is one of only six so-called sober schools in Minnesota.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi has partnered with the mobile safety communications platform LiveSafe to offer Ole Miss students, faculty and staff a tool for real-time security communication.

The university said in a news release the app will allow the campus community to report nonemergency tips including threats, disturbances, assaults, theft, stalking, suspicious activity, drug and alcohol abuse and traffic and parking issues, among others.