The COVID-19 pandemic started a surge in stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths, and that uptick hasn't tapered ...

The terms have a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. All of these definitions imply a ...

Alcohol's ability to increase people's pain threshold is one reason that drinking also leads to more aggressive behavior, a ...

Substance addiction is a complex disorder characterized by compulsive drug use. While addiction is difficult to understand, all abused substances share one thing in common - repeated use could ...

Some people use the term “alcoholism” to describe the medical condition alcohol use disorder (AUD). While AUD is a clinical diagnosis, society may still stigmatize people who experience this ...

Medical emergencies often present symptoms that people might mistake for alcohol intoxication. This confusion can lead to ...

There is no doubt that at high doses or with binge drinking, alcohol increases the risk of several types of cancer, ...

A study using Swedish patient data found anti-obesity drugs were linked with fewer hospitalizations related to alcohol use, ...

The latest health news includes the tragic death of two Australians from methanol poisoning in Laos, approval of GSK's RSV ...