Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A brief intervention reduced the frequency of alcohol use by 40% among high-risk teens with chronic medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Weekly alcohol consumption was 11 g lower among students exposed to the intervention. Consumption was even lower ...

Seeing your teenager struggle with alcohol can be a heartbreaking experience. Alcohol use can have serious consequences for young people, impacting their physical and mental health, academic ...

Short one-on-one discussions about alcohol consumption in a doctor’s office may reduce patients' drinking levels, according to a study. Findings published in the Addiction journal indicated that brief ...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has updated its comprehensive and research-based booklet and website to ...

As patients come into clinic and receive appropriate follow-up, we can hopefully find ways to mitigate the increase in alcoholic hepatitis, said Nancy Reau, MD, section chief of hepatology at Rush ...

Our approach to working with families is immersed in the “why” we do what we do. We know what it's like to be in the grip of addiction and to come out the other side. It is with grace that we have ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Drug and alcohol ...

Alcohol use disorder, formerly known as alcoholism, is an addiction to alcohol. Someone with the condition is unable to stop or control their alcohol use. If a person is worried that someone they know ...

Q: My sister-in-law is friends with a woman I see socially about three times a year. She is a high-functioning alcoholic: She doesn’t drink during the day but becomes a slurry obnoxious mess at ...

Matthew Perry says he felt "freed" when he learned that addiction was a disease. "I just thought I was weak," he said. (Photo: Santiago Felipe/Getty Images) Matthew Perry credits Friends for saving ...