A new study from the University of Chicago Medicine reveals that people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depression experience high levels of stimulation and pleasure when intoxicated, similar to ...

A new study reveals that heavy drinkers with depression experience the same level of buzz as those without depression, challenging the long-standing belief that alcohol's pleasurable effects diminish ...

The rise of counterfeit fentanyl-laced pharmaceuticals threatens public health. Innovative molecular analytical methods are ...

One tool used worldwide to identify AUD is the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Tool (AUDIT), developed by WHO (Higgins-Biddle and Babor, 2018). While the classification of AUD has changed over the ...

The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C)26 questions were used to assess prenatal alcohol exposure if the young person’s birth mother was their responsible adult. When this ...

Results Compared with patients with non-premature ASCVD, patients with premature ASCVD had a higher use of tobacco (62.9% vs 40.6%), alcohol (31.8% vs 14.8% ... premature and non-premature ASCVD. A χ ...

Alcohol use disorder, which affects over 10% of Americans, can lead to persistent and serious insomnia. Difficulties falling ...

Research in fruit flies has identified specific groups of cholinergic brain cells that are involved in alcohol-induced insomnia. This work could ultimately lead to targeted treatments for ...

Those numbers suggest that cannabis use disorder is about half as dangerous as opioid addiction and slightly less dangerous than alcohol use disorder, the researchers said. A second report ...

Researchers have identified brain circuits disrupted by prenatal alcohol exposure, which may explain the cognitive ...

Researchers develop machine learning tools that screen for co-morbid anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder using acoustic voice signals. The team spoke to participants with and without ...