More young people are turning to marijuana as their first substance of choice, rather than smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.
Drinking rates among women have risen in recent decades, and now they’re getting hit with related complications in higher numbers.
Lung transplant patients who showed evidence of alcohol use before their transplants spent more time in the hospital and on the ventilator, according to a study by Loyola University Chicago and Loyola Medicine researchers.
A new review published online today in the journal Addiction has compiled the best, most up-to-date source of information on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and the burden of death and disease.
Drink-driving and drinking while pregnant are socially unacceptable in many countries, yet when it comes to other alcohol-related health risks, public awareness is low.
Alcohol use during pregnancy can lead to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs), a range of effects that include lowered intelligence and developmental delays.
A new study assesses the effect of alcohol consumption on the restorative quality of sleep. The findings might make you want to change your drinking — and implicitly, your sleeping — habits.
Every morning, Josh starts his day by making the same pledge: Today is the day he’s not going to drink.
Lamuel Bean wants to improve the health of communities. Katherine Rodriguez is influenced by her career goal of becoming a neonatologist.
The study focused on examining the use of “Protective Behavioral Strategies (PBS)” among young female university students.