It takes about five half-lives to process and eliminate alcohol from your system completely, where the the half-life of ...

Kelley Kitley joins us on The Morning Blend to discuss how alcohol consumption has reached a record low in the United States.

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Tolerance to alcohol's fatiguing effects was less predictive of the future course of addiction. "We knew that at age 25, there were binge drinkers who were sensitive to alcohol's more positive ...

This spiral has long been thought to lead to addiction. But when she started working with patients with alcohol use disorder, King noticed that—contrary to what she’d been taught by prevailing ...

We all know that becoming dependent on alcohol is dangerous. Having a glass of wine or a couple of beers from time to time is obviously fine, and potentially even healthy according to science, but ...

Wilder adds the effects of chronic alcohol use on the body over time can be devastating. "It has a large impact on multiple organs, and the biggest ones are your brain, of course, your liver, your ...

Support for the study includes National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants R01-AA07112 and K05-AA00219, Department of Veterans Affairs grant I01-CX000326 , National Institute on ...

Gender dimorphism of brain reward system volumes in alcoholism. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2017; 263: 15 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.03.001 ...

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