By Dr Vasilios SilivistrisAlcoholism can often go undiagnosed despite being the most widely used drug globally.Although there is no known specific cause of alcohol abuse or alcoholism, the amount you ...

Story at a glance Drinking problems can affect physical and mental health. One study looked at long-term data on twins to understand how alcohol misuse in teen years could affect health later. The … ...

The term alcohol “misuse” refers to stages 3 and 4 in the pattern of drinking. In these stages, drinking begins to become a problem, and if the individual continues in the same manner, he is ...

Alcohol misuse costs the U.S. nearly $250 billion per year in health care and criminal justice expenditures, lost workplace productivity, and other costs. Meanwhile, in 2016 an estimated 14.6 ...

Should Americans who misuse alcohol lose the 'license to drink'? Here's how it could work. Beau Kilmer and Nancy Nicosia. Sun, March 19, 2023 at 1:35 PM UTC. 4 min read.

“There’s a whole different set” of health risk factors for older drinkers, said Paul Sacco, a professor of social work at the ...

By contrast, alcohol misuse is much more of a risk factor for gun violence. A link between the two has been widely established in medical research: A 2015 study from the University of California, ...

Misuse of alcohol can accelerate age-related changes, including systemic inflammation and sleep disturbances, according to the same study in the journal Alcohol.

Mortality and hospital admission rates in the city for alcohol-specific conditions are both significantly above the national ...