alcohol abuse

March 23, 2021

Advice comes from past decade of working with people at Seattle homeless shelters to reduce drinking.

July 2, 2019

415 residents succumbed: Heroin and opioids, including fentanyl, continue to be most common drugs linked to fatal overdoses.

April 9, 2019

Median time for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment is 2.5 years for post-9/11 vets, compared with 16 years for veterans before that date.

November 19, 2018

Children living with an adult gun owner who misuses alcohol are at increased risk of self-harm and interpersonal violence. 

October 26, 2017

“What we found was significant reduction in craving-related brain activity after they completed the treatment,” UW Medicine Radiology and Engineering scientist Hunter Hoffman said.

October 20, 2017

Small study is first to employ functional MRI to visualize brain activation before and after chemical-aversion therapy.

Students who binge-drink on their 21st birthday are more likely to drink heavily in the future, according to research published thi

Clinicians have known for years that people who start drinking as adolescents are prone to develop alcohol problems and make riskier decisions as adults. But scientists have been unable to say why, exactly. 

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