Alcoholism Blog

The TWEAK alcohol screening test is a short, five-question test which was originally designed to screen pregnant women for harmful drinking habits. The TWEAK has also been used to ... Read More

Because nicotine significantly affects the structural and chemical changes in the developing brains of adolescents, smoking cigarettes makes teens more vulnerable to alcohol and drug addiction and to mental ... Read More

Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that produce psychoactive (mind-altering) effects. Younger children and teens tend to abuse inhalants in part because they are readily available and inexpensive. Although unintentional ... Read More

A study of 3,130 pregnant women found that maternal alcohol use during pregnancy can substantially increase the risk for extreme preterm delivery of newborns, a major contributor to perinatal ... Read More

Because the use of methamphetamine among male homosexuals is 30 times higher than in the general population, urgent prevention, intervention and treatment efforts are need to reduce the risk ... Read More

Each year, about four million people in the United States seek some kind of treatment for a problem related to the use of alcohol and drugs, but that leaves ... Read More

Overall cocaine use in the United States has decreased during the past 20 years, but new research shows that the decrease occurred among those who are highly educated, while ... Read More

A Canadian study has confirmed the link between the risk of head and neck cancers and has shown that people who stop drinking altogether can significantly reduce their risk ... Read More

A medication used primarily for migraines and seizure control has been shown once again to help some alcohol dependent drinkers stop drinking or cut back on heavy drinking. About ... Read More

"I made a deadly discovery that changed my life. I realized that you could remove your next-morning hangover by drinking. It wasn't long that I was drinking all day every ... Read More

The type of alcohol that a woman drinks makes no difference, but the amount of alcohol consumed is linked to the risk of developing breast cancer, according to a ... Read More

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is mostly used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, delusional disorder and other mental disorders, but it has also been shown to be valuable in treating ... Read More

Although the alcohol industry as a whole has reduced spending on radio ads in the past five years, about one-third of those ads were more likely to be heard ... Read More

With the rate of underage drinking in the United States remaining steady over the past five years, the Office of Justice Programs has released $17 million in block grant ... Read More