Tag: Alcohol abuse
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes...
Karla Kaun, Brown University
Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as...
As suicides rise in the US, the 988 hotline offers hope...
Emmy Betz, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
July 2023 marks the one-year anniversary of the national launch of...
Alcohol use more likely among Black youths at racially segregated schools
Guangyi Wang, University of California, San Francisco and Rita Hamad, University of California, San Francisco
The Research Brief is...
Alcohol companies make $17.5 billion a year off of underage drinking,...
David H. Jernigan, Boston University
CC–BY–ND.
Alcohol is still the most commonly used drug among high...
Hangovers happen as your body tries to protect itself from alcohol’s...
Daryl Davies, University of Southern California; Joshua Silva, University of Southern California, and Terry David Church, University of Southern California
Debaucherous evening last night? You’re...
Brain activity predicts which mice will become compulsive drinkers
Cody A. Siciliano, Vanderbilt University
Some individuals consume alcohol their entire adult life without developing an alcohol use disorder. Others, however, quickly transition to compulsive...
The D.A.R.E. Sessions wants is better than D.A.R.E.
Paul Boxer, Rutgers University Newark
Americans of a certain generation will remember this mantra from the 1980s: Just say no.
This simple phrase was the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
