Alcoholism News

Buzz Aldrin has been on many journeys in his remarkable life, and in some respects the one to the moon was the least challenging.

New British research suggests that men who consumer just four pints of beer per week may increase their lifetime risk of being hospitalized.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Historically, the United States has shown itself to be as poorly equipped to deal with the consequences of alcoholism as some individuals are to deal with the effects of alcohol itself.

One in eight troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008 were referred for counseling for alcohol problems after their post-deployment health assessments, according to data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.

Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 0:00 PDT In a study published online by the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment , UC Davis researchers report that it takes at least a year for former methamphetamine users to regain impulse control.

I just watched two episodes of a television show called Intervention , and if I was not sitting in front of this computer right now I would be watching the program that comes on after intervention, called Obsessed , about people with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders.

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered a new brain mechanism involved in alcohol addiction involving the stomach hormone ghrelin.

Alcohol's effect on the brain may stem from ethanol's ability to lubricate on the molecular level, U.S. researchers suggest.

This appears in the study headed by Pertti Panula entitled "Tuberomamillary nucleus neurons, histamine and H3 receptor in hypothalamic regulation of alcohol addiction" which is part of the Substance Use and Addictions research programme of the Academy of Finland.

A drunken game of jumping out of a first floor window led to the death of a father, an inquest heard.

Ireland's leading mental health hospital says it believes there are around 250,000 alcoholics living in Ireland.

Around 250,000 people in Ireland are alcoholics yet just a fifth are receiving treatment, it was claimed today.

But the molecular details of alcohol's impact on brain activity remain a mystery.

The four forms of rosacea : Redness and flushing; bumps and pimples; eye irritation; and skin thickening.

Project Prevention, a non profit organization that pays drug addicts and alcoholics to not get pregnant, was asked by concerned Chicago residents to return to their city to help the addicts there.

Thiruvananthapuram, June 26 : Kerala's Excise Minister P.K. Gurudasan Friday said there will be no ban on opening of new liquor shops but at the same time stressed that the government is running an awareness programme, which includes street plays and short film, on the ill-effects of alcohol.

In his new book, veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin details his life experiences, from being the second man to step foot on the surface of the Moon to his battles with depression and alcohol abuse after the historic mission.

Alcohol may be more harmful to women because it induces a greater stress response in the brain, according to a new study of rats at Idaho State University.

Frequent binge drinking may dramatically increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke, according to a South Korean study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association .

Most diseases the public associates with alcoholism, such as cirrhosis of the liver, constitute a minority of alcohol-related deaths.