When I was 14 years old, I became aware that I wanted to feel the effects of alcohol. I had a few drinks at a friend's house when his parents weren't home and quickly felt relaxed, uninhibited, and ...

Alcohol addiction, also known as alcohol use disorder, is a long-term condition where a person finds it very hard to control ...

Why do stressful moments so often push people toward habits like drinking? A new study from Texas A&M University offers one ...

Mary Pendery, before her sad demise at the hands of the Disease Theory Recently, an old friend of Mary Pendery's contacted me via e-mail. I was surprised to see Mary's ghost resurface this way. This ...

For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high ...

The blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on drinking, new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry suggests. In a study of around 228,000 people in Sweden who had ...

Alcohol is one of the most commonly used psychoactive drugs, with a growing number of users in many parts of the world. Despite the awareness regarding its adverse effects, individuals can get ...

Ashwin Dhanda receives funding from the National Institute of Health and Social Care Research for a study investigating methods to tackle stigma in alcohol-related liver disease. One of my patients, ...

A glass of wine with dinner, drinks with friends, alcohol is ingrained in our social rituals. Source: Pavel Danilyuk/Pexels A glass of wine with dinner, drinks with friends at the bar, and a "cheers" ...