In 2012, Colorado voters were the first to approve the recreational use of marijuana. Fast forward to May 2021, and its recreational use is now legal in 17 states, plus Washington, DC and Guam, while medical use is legal in 36 states and four territories.
In a famous Supreme Court case, Craig v. Boren, at issue was an Oklahoma statute that said young women could buy “non-intoxicating” beer (which had 3.2% alcohol) at the age of 18, but young men had to be 21.
The words young adults use to describe how they feel when they have been drinking alcohol are a key to understanding whether they will engage in risky behaviors such as driving under the influence.
Over the past year, working from home changed to homing from work. This made life infinitely more stressful for those juggling work with running a household, while additionally burdened by being cut off from many personal connections.
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, a time to emphasize the need for education about alcohol use disorder. Drinking too much alcohol can have a direct impact not only on an individual’s health and safety, but that of their families and communities as well.
Being the second-largest organ in the body, the liver performs various functions associated with digestion, immunity, metabolism within our body.
Alcohol consumption was responsible for an average 85,000 deaths annually during the period 2013 to 2015 in the Americas, where per capita consumption is 25% higher than the global average, according to a study undertaken by the Pan American Health Organization/WHO and published today in the journal Addiction.
The goal of this awareness event is to dispel any myths students and teens may believe about substance use and to connect them with scientific facts instead.
At a time when Americans are drinking more alcohol than ever before, a group of health organizations is lobbying Congress for a new cancer-specific warning label to be displayed on all alcoholic beverages.
New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation examines whether recreational marijuana legalization in Oregon and marijuana and alcohol retail outlet density levels are associated with co-use and beliefs supportive of use of each among teens.