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.
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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.
The pressure of needing to be a model minority — successful, quiet, hardworking — can force people to internalize their mental anguish and ends up leaving gaps in our mental health services.
Today’s non-alcoholic drinks are perfectly at home in the wine bar or on the cocktail shelf.
Biden’s relationship with his father contrasts with perhaps every president in the last four decades, who either had absent or distant fathers or abusive or alcoholic fathers or stepfathers.
The story of the alleged Atlanta shooter highlights the two most common ways Americans think about compulsive behaviors – considering them the results of temptation and treating them as diseases.
Can college professors rap their way into academic publishing? One professor makes an album to prove they can.
People with alcohol or substance dependency already struggle to access mental health treatment, covid will only make this worse.
The brain’s immune system cells (called microglia) have already been shown to be involved in addiction to other substances.
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Mental Health Social Worker and PhD Candidate, University of Staffordshire
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in older people's substance use and mental health, King's College London
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Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor / Lead Substance use research group, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health, University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer, Deakin University
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Research Associate in Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria
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Research Fellow at the National Drug Research Institute, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow/ Statistician, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical Associate Professor of Hepatology, University of Nottingham
