Alcohol can impair your ability to think, damage your brain cells, and increase your risk of long-term conditions such as memory loss and addiction. You may think of alcohol as a way to unwind or ...

Alcohol contributes to more than 200 health conditions, fueling a staggering 175,000 deaths each year across the U.S. Globally, the toll reaches nearly 3 million lives. Despite these alarming numbers, ...

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. For the first time ...

When drinking alcohol, you might feel relaxed, uplifted, and calm — but these effects don't last, and alcohol can eventually ...

To do so, researchers simulated the effects of alcohol dependence on a group of 27 rats (17 males; 10 females) with a method called chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) vapor exposure. The rats were ...

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There's mounting evidence that popular drugs prescribed for diabetes management and weight loss—better known by trade names ...

Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages each week could have a damaging effect on the brain, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs appear to slow the speed at which alcohol enters the bloodstream, which diminishes its effects ...

Approximately 178,000 people die from excessive drinking each year. But researchers say popular weight loss drugs could help ...

Researchers at School of Medicine and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences have found a surprising connection ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...