Young adults with ADHD who are less confident in social situations may be more likely to use alcohol as a coping mechanism, which puts them at higher risk for problem drinking. This was one of the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When picturing a “typical” alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the ...

Social alcoholism creeps into the pint of beer shared around a football match, the glass of champagne raised at a colleague's farewell party and the cocktail ordered to celebrate a friend's birthday.

Alcohol seems to have lost its grip on American life in recent years. Younger adults are drinking less. Sober bars and alcohol-free member clubs are cropping up across the country. Nonalcoholic beer ...

When Americans think about the nation’s substance use crisis, opioids, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine dominate the conversation. But the substance causing the greatest harm is not illicit. It ...

Introduction : why is drinking interesting? -- Alcohol in the ancient world -- Barbarians and beerpots : european drinking from the Celts to Victoria -- A short history of American drinking -- It's ...

Researchers came to Dr. Chris Knowles’ school in England when he was 18 years old to run an experiment. They wanted to see which novice drinkers responded the most to alcohol and who would later go on ...

Seija is a postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and associate fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. As a physician ...

MORE than 16,000 British troops have been treated for booze problems or disciplined for drinking offences, The Sun can reveal. Hundreds have been diagnosed with alcohol-related issues, including ...