Alcoholism News

THURSDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- A new report reveals that 98.8 percent of the more than 7.4 million American adults aged 21 to 64 with untreated alcohol abuse disorders don't believe they need treatment. And only 7.8 percent (506,000) of the...

MONDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) People at higher risk for alcoholism might also face higher odds of becoming obese, new study findings show. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis analyzed data from two large U.S. alc...

FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine may help explain why men are up to twice as likely as women to develop alcoholism, a new study says. Dopamine, which plays a number of roles in the bra...

FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Alcoholics are unaware of their memory problems and overestimate their memory capacities, a new study finds. French researchers investigated episodic and metamemory in alcoholics. Their findings are published on...

WEDNESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Compulsive sexual behavior can be a real problem in some people, causing them to engage in risky and self-destructive acts revolving around their libido, experts say. The career of professional golfer Tiger Wo...

THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are linking a stress hormone to alcoholism in animals, and they report that blocking it could become a strategy to help stop the addiction in people. The research "represents an important step in u...

FRIDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The genes that make people susceptible to alcoholism also make them prone to becoming addicted to marijuana, a new study suggests. Researchers interviewed almost 6,300 men and women aged 24 to 36, including almo...

THURSDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Heavy drinking can affect the ability to recognize other people's facial emotions, a new study has found. Researchers used functional MRI to monitor brain activity in 15 abstinent long-term alcoholics while th...

MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Binge drinking among American college students is on the rise, along with its consequences of drunk driving and drinking-related deaths, U.S. health officials report. In fact, drinking-related deaths among stude...

TUESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- The more you need to drink to feel the effects of alcohol, the greater your chance of becoming an alcoholic, a new study says. This apparent lack of sensitivity to imbibing intoxicants, called a low level of res...

FRIDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- Being impulsive is a risk factor for alcoholism, a new study finds. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis researchers found that mice bred to crave large amounts of alcohol were more impulsive than mic...

THURSDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that when it comes to getting pleasure from alcohol, less may be more. Experiments in rats suggest that a low or moderate amount of drinking releases "feel-good" brain chemicals called b...

FRIDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) -- A pill normally prescribed to help with infertility and menstrual disorders may also help treat alcoholism, a new study says. When injected with cabergoline (Dostinex), rats addicted to alcohol decreased their d...