Social drinking can sit on the slippery slope to alcoholism. People - and culture - can sometimes intertwine solitary drinkers with addiction. However, alcoholism often starts out when drinking among ...

When picturing a "typical" alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the authors of a new ...

Men chat as they drink beer at a sheeben (bar) in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg August 8, 2012. After years of turning a blind eye to alcohol abuse, politicians from South Africa to Kenya and ...

Proposed changes to the psychiatric profession’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, have caused a recent uproar, with critics worried that the new label of “alcohol abuse disorder” will overdiagnose young ...

Young adults with ADHD who are less confident in social situations may be more likely to use alcohol as a coping mechanism, which puts them at higher risk for problem drinking. This was one of the ...

After 50, drinking problems can quietly emerge for the first time or return after years of control. Retirement, empty nests, ...

Insomnia and hazardous drinking are so closely intertwined that estimates suggest at least one-third, and as many as 91%, of people who have a hard time with sleep also misuse alcohol. A new study ...

WELCOME BACK. APRIL IS ALCOHOL AWARENESS MONTH, AND ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, ALCOHOLISM IS A GROWING PROBLEM FOR OLDER ADULTS. JOINING US NOW TO TALK MORE ABOUT THIS AND ALSO THE ...

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

For decades, many people believed that moderate drinking—especially red wine—could be part of a healthy lifestyle.

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, one-fifth of individuals who suffer from social anxiety also wrestle with problem drinking. At first glance, the two conditions may seem ...