WASHINGTON -- Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.

NMAI copy 39088019909696 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began ...

Q: Are low economic families more apt to have alcoholism than rich people? A: Not necessarily. Anyone from any social, economic, ethnic or cultural group can develop alcoholism. People who have a ...