Alcoholism News
December 24, 2024
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Dec. 18, 2024 Light and moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular complications, according to a multicenter study. The study is based on the analysis of a biomarker of wine ...
Dec. 2, 2024 Alcohol's ability to increase people's pain threshold is one reason that drinking also leads to more aggressive behavior, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the less pain that study participants felt after drinking an alcoholic beverage, ...
Dec. 3, 2024 Propensity to addiction starts with the very first drug use experience, a new study ...
Nov. 20, 2024 Researchers have led a clinical trial of a drug that mimics the effects of alcohol in more than 100 patients with laryngeal dystonia, a neurological condition that causes involuntary muscle spasms in ...
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Nov. 26, 2024 There is evidence that alcohol consumption is influenced by prenatal sex steroids, so experts decided to use a sample of students for their research into the ...
Nov. 18, 2024 Alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. nearly doubled from 1999 to 2020. The sharpest spike occurred among 25- to 34-year-olds (nearly fourfold), while individuals aged 55 to 64 had the highest rates. ...
Nov. 14, 2024 New research has found that certain types of medication used to treat diabetes may be effective in reducing alcohol use. The study looked at whether a type of diabetes medication, called GLP-1 ...
Nov. 11, 2024 A new finds that heavy drinking among adult Americans increased more than 20 percent during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and continued for the following two ...
Nov. 5, 2024 By examining RNA in hundreds of thousands of individual brain cells, scientists further support that alcohol use disorder could accelerate ...
Oct. 25, 2024 Elite ice hockey players with a history of concussion report heightened mental health symptoms, according to a new ...
Oct. 17, 2024 One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is 'allodynia' -- increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, ...
Oct. 9, 2024 A new study has failed to find any strong links between drinking coffee during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental difficulties in ...
Oct. 9, 2024 Researchers find cardiac arrhythmias in partygoers who had drunk a lot of ...
Aug. 22, 2024 A new study suggests recollecting a previous drinking episode could put women off drinking too ...
Earlier Headlines
Oct. 10, 2024 Mentally healthy college students who felt connected to their university were more likely to binge drink than those who did not feel connected to their university, according to a new ...
Sep. 19, 2024 Just over half of heavier drinkers in England say they would make changes to their drinking if calorie labels for alcohol were introduced, according to a new ...
Sep. 17, 2024 Reducing the serving size for beer, lager and cider reduces the volume of those drinks consumed in pubs, bars and restaurants, and could be a useful alcohol control measure, according to a new study. ...
Aug. 14, 2024 A new study could lead to better alcohol use screenings for patients in a primary care ...
Aug. 13, 2024 Adolescents were more likely to have consumed alcohol or tried marijuana by age 15 if they had later bedtimes and slept fewer hours during the night during childhood and adolescence, according to a ...
Aug. 8, 2024 Little is known about the association between the frequency of alcohol use and the severity of injuries sustained after a fall in older adults. A study of 3,128 older adults who underwent an initial ...
Aug. 8, 2024 Researchers say they now know that offspring are inheriting dysfunction in their mitochondria as a result of their parents' substance abuse. This dysfunction causes these individuals to show ...
Aug. 6, 2024 Grab a drink with friends at happy hour and you're likely to feel chatty, friendly and upbeat. But grab a drink alone and you may experience feelings of depression. Researchers think they now ...
July 29, 2024 New research is shedding new light on the complex issue of drinking and driving among teens and young adults in the ...
July 23, 2024 Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms ...
July 9, 2024 Even years after they have recovered, a person who once struggled with alcohol or opioid addiction can relapse--and that relapse is more likely to occur during particularly stressful times. Now, ...
May 23, 2024 A new study assessed cannabis use in the United States between 1979 and 2022, finding that a growing share of cannabis consumers report daily or near-daily use and that their numbers now exceed those ...
Apr. 5, 2024 Some people have genes that protect them from alcohol abuse. An examination of databases at 23andMe reveal that those same alcohol-protective variants have associations with conditions and behaviors ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Researchers have found that even low to moderate alcohol use by pregnant patients may contribute to subtle changes in their babies' prenatal development, including lower birth length and a ...
Mar. 27, 2024 The couple that drinks together might live longer together, too, says a University of Michigan ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Men and women with lower income or education levels are more likely to develop medical conditions related to alcohol abuse compared to similar individuals with a higher socioeconomic status, ...
Feb. 13, 2024 New research examined how often people experiencing binge eating are also using cannabis recreationally, and whether patients who use cannabis experience more severe eating disorder symptoms or ...
Jan. 18, 2024 Across 21 licensed premises in England, removing the largest individual serving size of wine from the menu reduced the volume of wine sold, according to a new ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Reducing stimulant use was associated with significant improvement in measures of health and recovery among people with stimulant use disorder, even if they did not achieve total abstinence. This ...
Jan. 8, 2024 By investigating a molecule in the brain tied to cellular communication, scientists uncover important information about the proteins that do -- and do not -- influence alcohol drinking ...
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- Alcohol Use in Older Adults Doubles Risk of Brain Bleeds from Falls
- Children Can Inherit Early Aging Symptoms from Parents Who Abuse Alcohol, Researchers Find
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- Scientists Give New Insight Into a Molecular Target of Alcohol
- Drugs Used to Treat Type 2 Diabetes Reduce Alcohol Cravings, Use in Individuals With Obesity
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- Researchers Uncover Why Light-to-Moderate Drinking Is Tied to Better Heart Health
- Loneliness, Insomnia Linked to Work With AI Systems
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- Can Pharmacotherapies Prevent Alcohol Use Disorder in People With PTSD?
- Brain Organoids Reveal in Detail the Harms of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
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- College Students Suffer More Than 100 Alcohol-Related Consequences, Study Finds
- Study Identifies Alcohol Risk Factors for Acute Stroke
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- How Fear Memories Get Stuck in Some Brains
- Heart Medication Shows Potential as Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder
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- Study That Investigated Whether Three Smoking Cessation Drugs Could Reduce Alcohol Intake Yields Unexpected Finding
- Digital Support for Reduced Alcohol Consumption
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- Heavy Drinkers Four Times More Likely to Smoke in England, Study Finds
- Binge Drinking Raises Risk of Developing Alcohol Problems, Even for Moderate Drinkers