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Recently, national media has created widespread exposure for the increased use of replacement drug treatment methods such as Methadone and Suboxone. The “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” and USA Today have both touched upon some of the dangers these replacement methods present, which include new dependencies and death due to overdose. With prescription drug [...]

The nation’s eighth graders took center stage in this year’s Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey, showing a significant decline in both smoking and illicit drug use in the past year, part of a downward trend for all measured age groups in the last decade. In addition, eighth graders showed a substantial long-term decline in past-year [...]

Alcohol triggers the activation of a variety of genes that can influence the health and activity of brain cells, and new research from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City sheds light on how that process occurs. The findings, published in the Nov. 21 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, may also edge scientists [...]

A variant of a gene involved in communication among brain cells has a direct influence on alcohol consumption in mice, according to a new study by scientists supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Army. Scientists do not know yet [...]

* Alcoholics in early recovery tend to have impaired cognitive functioning. * Nicotine is known to have beneficial effects under certain circumstances. * New findings show that nicotine patches may enhance cognitive functioning among newly recovering alcoholics with a history of smoking. Detoxified alcoholics in the early stages of recovery tend to have impaired cognitive [...]

Mexican Americans make up 66 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population and, when compared to other ethnic groups, show high rates of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems. First-of-its-kind research that examines haplotypes — clusters of genetic polymorphisms — of the CYP2E1 gene among a Mexican-American population has found that carrying haplotype H6 may enhance susceptibility [...]

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati are reporting on a pilot program aimed at curbing alcohol abuse among college students. Early promising results from this intervention program were presented at the annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in Philadelphia. The creation of the program was supported by $392,159 in funding from [...]

* Adolescents who drink alcohol, smoke and/or use drugs tend to have peers who do the same. * New research findings suggest that girls may be more influenced by their friends’ drinking. * Having opposite-sex friends who drink is also associated with increased drinking for both genders. Adolescents who drink alcohol, smoke and/or use drugs [...]

Previous studies have linked heavy drinking and conduct disorder to high-risk sexual behaviors that can, in turn, lead to unintended pregnancies, infection, and damage to reproductive health. A new study has linked the clinical diagnoses of alcohol dependence and conduct disorder among 18-to-25-year-olds to the risk of having a high number of sexual partners. Results [...]

Professor Ian Gilmore was pleased to represent both the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) as its President and the Alcohol Health Alliance UK as its Chairman at a meeting arranged by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street this morning to tackle alcohol misuse, particularly in the young. Although the drinks producers and retailers suggested [...]