Psychology & Psychiatry
How we view the future may hold keys to recovery from alcohol use disorder
A "slow" strategy may be the fast track for people recovering from alcohol use disorder.
Jan 25, 2022
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Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Medications
Teens and young adults increasingly using alcohol and cannabis together, exacerbating negative consequences
Teens and young adults who use cannabis in the US are considerably more likely to drink alcohol compared to their peers who don't use cannabis, a study has found. The paper, in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, ...
Dec 28, 2021
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Addiction
Young people's fluctuating beliefs on alcohol's effects influence their drinking and consequences
College students' beliefs around the likelihood and desirability of alcohol's effects vary over time, and predict drinking level and consequences, according to a study in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. The ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Health
As COVID-19 spread, children and teens were poisoned with hand sanitizer and alcoholic drinks
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, as false health information spread on social media, the number of children and teens poisoned with hand sanitizer or alcoholic beverages surged in Iran. These poisonings resulted ...
Sep 8, 2021
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Addiction
Combined cigarette and alcohol cues intensify motivation to continue substance use
Researchers at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York have explored the motivational impact of cigarette and alcohol "cues", with important implications for understanding and treating addiction and relapse. ...
Sep 1, 2021
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Addiction
Recovery from alcohol use disorder: Long-term abstinence accompanied by brain changes and emotional improvements
Interlinked changes in drinking behavior, mood, and the brain among women and men during recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) have been clarified in a new study in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. AUD recovery ...
Aug 25, 2021
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Addiction
Multiracial people report high levels of racial discrimination, raising risk for heavy drinking
People of mixed race are experiencing high levels of racial discrimination, and this is linked to their increased risk of heavy drinking, according to a new study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Multiracial ...
Aug 13, 2021
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Partners play pivotal role in pregnant women's alcohol use and babies' development
A new study by a team of University of Rochester psychologists and other researchers in the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) finds that partners of mothers-to-be can directly influence ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Neuroscience
Neuroimaging discovers alterations in brain circuits that contribute to alcohol addiction
A novel neuroimaging study provides the first evidence that a small region of the brain, called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, has gender-based network structural connectivity differences in early abstinence from ...
May 12, 2021
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Health
Smartphone breath alcohol testing devices vary widely in accuracy
Alcohol-impaired driving kills 29 people a day and costs $121 billion a year in the U.S. After years of progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, efforts began to stall in 2009, and fatalities started increasing ...
May 9, 2021
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