Alcohol Use Disorder: When Is Drinking a Problem?
Conversations about alcohol use have been center stage in the national news. Stories about underage drinking, blacking out and harmful behavior associated with alcohol use are quite common in many families around the world. The rise of the opioid epidemic in the U.S. has rightly caught our attention but overshadowed a much more common problem. […]
Protein in the brain can put the brakes on binge drinking
Source: University of North Carolina School of Medicine A new study led by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers has found that a naturally-occurring protein in the brain can act to suppress binge alcohol drinking, a major public health problem estimated to cost the U.S. more than $170 billion each year. The study, […]
