Mental health struggles often lead individuals to seek relief through alcohol and drugs, a choice that research shows consistently worsens underlying conditions. While these substances might offer ...

A quantitative alcohol history should be recorded for all patients, because alcohol use contributes to many physical and mental disorders. A person-centered, nonjudgmental approach should be adopted.

No alcohol withdrawal symptoms despite episodic heavy drinking? That doesn't mean alcohol is not affecting your brain, ...

Are you an alcoholic— or just a problem drinker? It may not matter, according to the latest version of the DSM, psychiatry’s diagnostic manual .more And now, in a new study of the different levels of ...

The period from childhood to early adulthood is critically susceptible to the onset of mental disorders (MDs), substance use disorders (SUDs), and self-harm, with significant implications for public ...

The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series that will be running for 100+ days. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in distress.

"Unhealthy commodities" such as tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods, social media, and fossil fuels, as well as impacts of fossil fuel consumption such as climate change and air pollution are ...

I come from a family of alcoholics. Sarah, my first cousin, was the most recent to die of complications from alcoholism, at age 41. Before her, seven people in our extended family, including her ...

Science shows no amount of alcohol consumption is without risk, but politicians might just want intoxicated constituencies.

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