There are a few reasons why Gen Z is drinking less alcohol, including a higher awareness of physical and mental health. And ...

Naltrexone has long been used to treat alcohol use disorder. Now it’s gaining attention as a tool for people who want to cut ...

Proposed changes to the psychiatric profession’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, have caused a recent uproar, with critics worried that the new label of “alcohol abuse disorder” will overdiagnose young ...

The more frequent and often heavier drinking that can typify the holidays for many has many associated health risks, and now ...

UK psychiatrist Max Pemberton is warning about a "middle-aged drinking epidemic." zinkevych - stock.adobe.com Here’s another reason to try “Sober October” — a UK psychiatrist is warning about a ...

I come from a family of alcoholics. Sarah, my first cousin, was the most recent to die of complications from alcoholism, at age 41. Before her, seven people in our extended family, including her ...

Amid increasing rates of cancer among young people and growing evidence that no level of alcohol consumption is safe, the United States stands as an outlier in telling its citizens that drinking ...

Nausea, headaches, sensitivity to light and sound are all common symptoms of a hangover, and most of these will go away over time as the body works to process alcohol. But it might not just be a ...

In Kenya, depending on whom you ask, John Mututho is either a hero or a villain, but in a country consuming ever more alcohol, he is certainly a household name. In 2010, Mututho won a battle with the ...

High-functioning executives may drink little for weeks, then binge intensely. When drinking starts, the alcohol off-switch fails, leading to blackouts, lost weekends, and regret.