In the U.S. state policies pertaining to alcohol use during pregnancy have been in effect for more than 40 years.
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Each year, one in five U.S. adults -- an estimated 53 million people -- experience harm because of someone else's drinking, according to new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), worried that the rates of alcohol disorders among women are higher in the region of the Americas than in any other region of the world, has launched a new initiative to provide health care workers with the technical skills they need to identify and address alcohol consumption in pregnant women and those of reproductive age.
Much-needed attention is being paid to the impact of opioid, cannabis and nicotine use among youths in communities throughout the U.S. However, alcohol remains the most widely used substance by teens and has a significant impact on their morbidity and mortality.
On April 19, the Union-Bulletin published an article telling about a woman’s battle for safe roads. Because of my own longtime concern about this issue I felt the need to provide more information to U-B readers.
Millennials, the generation born from the 1980s to the 1990s, is being ravaged by a deadly crisis that saw more than 36,000 of their number commit suicide in 2017 alone. This deadly affliction is being called "deaths of despair" and it’s increasing among young Americans.
Despite increasing competition for federal research dollars, the Alcohol Research Center (ARC) at UConn Health endures well into its fifth decade with an unprecedented continuation of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Alcohol use is one of the biggest risk factors for social and physical harm and has been linked to the development of diseases including cancer, diabetes, and liver and heart disease.
More than half of the 4.2 million Americans who misused prescription opioids between 2012 and 2014 also engaged in binge drinking, according to a new study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana is riskier than using either substance alone, because their effects can interact and cause excessive depression of the central nervous system.