The countries make an interesting comparison because they both have a strong drinking culture, but their problems look slightly different.
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Alcohol abstinence alters brain activity in ways that may drive someone with alcohol use disorder to relapse.
Current treatments for alcohol abuse are limited in their effectiveness and come with side effects. Precisely targeting the neurons involved in binge drinking could lead to better options.
Frequent moves and long deployments can lead to trouble at home.
Plenty of North Koreans drink, but their leader has now branded excessive alcohol consumption a breach of party discipline.
Wales introduced a minimum price for alcohol in 2020 and a recent review shows it has reduced the availability of cheap high-strength drinks.
Prescribing alcohol to treat severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms is a rare and unconventional practice in the NHS.
Unlike other substances, alcohol is often present in our lives. While governments gain revenues from taxes on alcohol sales, the public costs of drinking far outweigh the revenues.
Parents of teenagers play an important role in their alcohol consumption. A new study shows that parental rules are the key, and that talking is not all that useful!
Alcohol is responsible for more deaths than overdoses from opioids and all other substances combined, yet less than 10% of people with alcohol use disorder receive treatment.
Singer Amy Winehouse died from alcohol toxicity in 2011, the same year that the American Society of Addiction Medicine publicly recognized addiction as a brain disorder.
This is the moment of truth. John’s story is no longer trapped in the clinical pages of a case file. ‘I’ve lost everything,’ he says. ‘I might as well be dead.’
Fiction offers precious and sobering insights into the impact of alcohol in the lives of women and children.
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
Adele is really saying alcohol is have too much of a negative impact on her life, and like many others has decided to do something positive about it by taking a break.
University students are particularly at high risk of depression. One global study suggests 21% of students have major depressive disorder.
Public policies should be looking to increase awareness of the link between alcohol and suicide and to assess and treat problematic alcohol use as a way to prevent suicide.
The number of deaths related to alcohol use in the US grew by a staggering 25% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Storylines warning of the dangers of alcoholism had more of a lasting effect than more formal health education.
When employers treat staff drinking problems as a health issue, they get much better results.
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