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Updated Guide Offers Clinicians New Tools to Help Patients with Alcohol Problems
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has updated a guide that provides tools that can be used by clinicians to help...
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Updated Guide Offers Clinicians New Tools to Help Patients With Alcohol Problems
What: Announces update of Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A...
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered a gene mutation in fruit flies that alters sensitivity to alcohol. The findings, reported in the October 6 issue of the journal Cell, may have implications for...
Relapse to uncontrolled drinking after periods of sobriety is a defining characteristic of alcoholism and is often triggered by stress. A new study in rats reports that a specific receptor for a stress-response transmitter may play an important...
"The wrong road early," an interview with Dr. Ralph Hingson and HHS HealthBeat.
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Individuals who become alcohol dependent before age 25 are less likely to ever seek treatment than those who become alcohol dependent at age 30 or older, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism...
Data from a survey of 43,000 U.S. adults heighten concerns that early alcohol use, independent of other risk factors, may contribute to the risk of developing future alcohol problems. Those who began drinking in their early teens were not only at...
NIAAA ANNOUNCEMENT
“Rethinking Alcohol Use Disorders: Science, Diagnosis, Treatment and Policy”
NIAAA Track at APA Annual Meeting Press...
The medication naltrexone and up to 20 sessions of alcohol counseling by a behavioral specialist are equally effective treatments for alcohol dependence when delivered with structured medical management, according to results from "Combining...
Researchers supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have identified new genes that may contribute to excessive alcohol consumption. The new study, conducted...
