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 ...

In Kenya, depending on whom you ask, John Mututho is either a hero or a villain, but in a country consuming ever more alcohol, he is certainly a household name. In 2010, Mututho won a battle with the ...

UK psychiatrist Max Pemberton is warning about a "middle-aged drinking epidemic." zinkevych - stock.adobe.com Here’s another reason to try “Sober October” — a UK psychiatrist is warning about a ...

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 ...

We drink when we are happy, we drink when we are sad, we drink to celebrate, and we drink to cope. Alcohol has become so ...

Health problems arising from alcohol and deaths that result from misuse of alcohol are rising in America, particularly among women. In fact, research has shown that a striking 20 percent of all deaths ...

This, in turn, suggests the number of “gray area” drinkers may be on the rise. It’s a nonclinical and somewhat vague term, ...

Nausea, headaches, sensitivity to light and sound are all common symptoms of a hangover, and most of these will go away over time as the body works to process alcohol. But it might not just be a ...

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 ...

High-functioning executives may drink little for weeks, then binge intensely. When drinking starts, the alcohol off-switch fails, leading to blackouts, lost weekends, and regret.