Experts are warning of a potential public health crisis fueled by binge-drinking millennials. ually cause damage to the pancreas, heart, and brain.
About 50 percent of people with an eating disorder also abuse alcohol or an illegal substance. Experts say the disease is made worse by advertising and social media, even as the severity of the disease is understated.
Alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC). However, while studies have consistently reported elevated risk of CRC among heavy drinkers, associations at moderate levels of alcohol consumption are less clear.
Repeated exposure to alcohol advertising in sport—either at venues or during media coverage of matches—can have long-term effects on drinking attitudes, according to a new international study.
According to a new study, energy drink consumption in the United States has increased substantially over the past decade among adolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults.
For decades, patients with liver disease related to alcohol use have been told they must be sober for six months before they can get a liver transplant. Many die before that six-month wait period is up.
Prolonged exposure therapy is more effective at treating PTSD than Seeking Safety, a coping skills therapy, for patients who also have alcohol use disorder, found a VA San Diego Healthcare System study.
THURSDAY, April 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Even though the harms to babies are well known, one in nine pregnant women in the United States drinks alcohol, new research shows.
DENVER, April 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of Alcohol Awareness Month, Cordant Health Solutions™ (Cordant)...today released results from an internal data set on the concomitant use of prescription medications and alcohol showing that nearly two-thirds of its samples confirmed positive for alcohol in 2018 also tested positive for other drugs, including prescription medications for which alcohol is contraindicated.
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada - This morning, the director of the UVic-based Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research said that there will be a significant change in alcohol pricing.