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.
The first study to estimate the alcohol-related cancer burden on a state-by-state basis provides more evidence that the drinking habits of Americans account for a "considerable" proportion of cancer diagnoses and deaths, researchers say.
(Washington, D.C., December 29, 2020) – Nutrition in America took a major step forward today with the publication of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025.
A new MMWR from the Alcohol Program in CDC’s Division of Population Health reports that excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 93,000 deaths in the US each year – or 255 deaths per day – shortening the lives of those who die by an average of 29 years.