Alcoholism Blog

For many drinkers, the computer is a safe place to explore whether or not they might have a problem with alcohol because they can get convenient, instant feedback while maintaining ... Read More

Utah has the lowest rate of past month use of illicit drugs in the nation, as well as the lowest rate for binge drinking, while Alaska has the highest rate ... Read More

People who regularly drink alcohol are three times as likely to die from injury as are non-drinkers and former drinkers of alcohol, according to new research from the Center for ... Read More

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to assess the potentially damaging effects of prenatal drug exposure -- a technique that could also be used to monitor a fetus's response to ... Read More

People who smoked marijuana had changes in the blood flow in their brains even after a month of not smoking, which could explain in part the problems with thinking or ... Read More

More than seven years after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Scotland Yard investigators returned to the tunnel in which she died with the latest laser technology to investigate ... Read More

Up to 80 percent of women seeking substance abuse treatment report lifetime histories of sexual and/or physical assault, and many report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder which can be helped ... Read More

People who recently began injecting heroin or cocaine face a risk of death more than three times higher than similarly aged people who do not inject drugs, researchers report. Read More: ... Read More

In the not-too-distant future, people struggling with drug addiction may benefit from new drugs based on a synthetic chemical that targets the brain's "bliss" system. Derived from an ancient Indian-language ... Read More

In its destructive effect on rural families and their children, methamphetamine may be in a class of its own, based on the first study from an ongoing research project in ... Read More

The new research findings about the drug Ibogaine open the way for development of other drugs to reverse addiction without it's side effects, potentially adding to the small arsenal of ... Read More

Although marijuana use may precede use of other drugs of abuse, prevention programs may not be successful if they do not take into account the underlying biology that predisposes people ... Read More

Results of a study suggest that people who abstain from smoking marijuana appear to have a better quality of life and higher levels of educational achievement than marijuana users. More: About ... Read More

Ecstasy is just simply dangerous stuff. University of Adelaide researchers have found that ecstasy taken on even a few occasions could cause severe damage to brain cells, with the potential ... Read More

More than one-third (35.9 percent) of U.S. adults with alcohol dependence (alcoholism) that began more than one year ago are now in full recovery, according to research by the Laboratory ... Read More

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine investigators have identified Modafinil – a wake-promoting agent approved for the treatment of narcolepsy – as a possible medicinal treatment for cocaine dependence. More: Cocaine ... Read More