Miss Benning was a health teacher at the largest co-educational high school in the county. Even though she had been teaching for only five years, she had already established a reputation as a teacher with a teaching methodology that stimulated and encouraged her students to learn and to think. As an illustration, one Wednesday morning [...]

The medical community defines certain illness and medical conditions as “silent killers.” Diseases such as obstructive sleep apnea, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, mesothelioma and many types of cancer such as colon cancer, lung cancer, rectal cancer, and breast cancer are well known silent killers. These medical problems are called silent [...]

It is interesting to bring up something that family members who have been harmfully affected by the alcoholism of another family member apparently do not know. It seems that by protecting the alcohol dependent individual with lies and dishonesty to those outside the family, these well-intentioned family members have in reality created a circumstance that [...]

Jesse had an awfully difficult time maintaining a job. To be sure, due to her lethargy and lack of motivation, she was out of a job far more often than she was gainfully employed. And when she did get employment, she had an unusually hard time getting to work on time, she regularly received less [...]

Jennifer is a twenty-six-year-old benefits manager who has been consuming alcohol in an abusive and excessive manner since her live-in boyfriend and she broke up. In point of fact, for the past four months she has been drinking very nearly two bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking [...]