The 62 health risks with alcohol usage include endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases, mental and behavioral ...

A quantitative alcohol history should be recorded for all patients, because alcohol use contributes to many physical and mental disorders. A person-centered, nonjudgmental approach should be adopted.

Even mild drinking is toxic to the body, contributing to long-term disease. Yet in many cases you can reverse that damage, ...

The study found that drinking is linked to more than 60 disease and injury categories that are entirely attributable to ...

Mental health struggles often lead individuals to seek relief through alcohol and drugs, a choice that research shows consistently worsens underlying conditions. While these substances might offer ...

Are you an alcoholic— or just a problem drinker? It may not matter, according to the latest version of the DSM, psychiatry’s diagnostic manual .more And now, in a new study of the different levels of ...

The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series that will be running for 100+ days. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in distress.

I come from a family of alcoholics. Sarah, my first cousin, was the most recent to die of complications from alcoholism, at age 41. Before her, seven people in our extended family, including her ...