In the U.S. the leading preventable cause of death is tobacco, and second is poor diet and physical inactivity. Care to guess what comes in third? You can’t be faulted if you guessed opioids, given ...

FORT NOVOSEL, Ala. -- The military has always had a unique relationship with alcohol. Many times, in the early history of the military, alcohol was supplied or easily accessible for servicemembers.

WASHINGTON — A new study in the American Journal of Medicine shows alcohol abuse among veterans climbed in the second and third year of the coronavirus pandemic after dipping at the onset of the ...

April is National Alcohol Awareness Month, an annual campaign aimed at bringing awareness to the dangers of alcohol misuse. Alcohol Awareness Month was established in 1987 by the National Council for ...

The National Health Interview Survey finds that lawyers are less likely to exhibit mental illness than the general population but are more likely to abuse alcohol than similarly educated peers.

Clinical awareness of connection between alcohol and dementia is paramount to providing the best patient care management. Patients who start abusing alcohol later in life -- after age 40 -- may be ...

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In the United States, alcohol is not a controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). However, it is subject to certain regulations. For some, alcohol consumption provides a feeling ...

Through intricate experiments designed to account for sex-specific differences, scientists have zeroed-in on certain changes in the brain that may be responsible for driving alcohol abuse among people ...