Eating Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Eating DisordersBy Promises Behavioral HealthJuly 22, 2010Eating disorders plague about 0.9 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men over a lifetime period in the United States. Those who are diagnosed with an eating disorder are given a designation of one of three diagnoses provided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition.
Higher Percentage of Drinkers Across American Ethnic Groups AlcoholismBy Promises Behavioral HealthJuly 22, 2010Greater proportions of white, African American, and Hispanic drinkers have emerged since the early 1990s, a new study finds. Researchers at the University of Texas’s Department of Public Health and affiliates discovered that the number of both male and female drinkers of white, African American, and Hispanic backgrounds had risen from 1992 to 2002, but…
