Researchers are studying whether these widely used weight-loss drugs may also be future treatments for alcohol abuse.

New research published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity provides evidence that alcohol use disorder triggers a distinct type of immune response in the brain. The findings suggest that excessive ...

About 27 million American adults, roughly the population of Texas, struggled with alcohol use disorder last year, according ...

A new study by Scripps Research reveals that alcohol dependence disrupts two signaling pathways in a stress-related part of ...

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In a large U.S. retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open, investigators report that glucagon-like peptide-1 ...

An 18-week experimental study, published in Alcohol Clinical & Experimental Research, examining the effects of the drug, ...

This, in turn, suggests the number of “gray area” drinkers may be on the rise. It’s a nonclinical and somewhat vague term, ...

An 18-week experimental study examining the effects of topiramate on tobacco smoking and alcohol use found no differences ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There are limited numbers of FDA-approved medications to treat alcohol and substance use disorders. Preclinical ...

Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms of mania, ...

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