Heavy drinking by college students, long seen as almost a rite of passage, has emerged in the past decade as a major public health problem with dangerous consequences -- to the drinkers and to their ...

Excessive drinking is on the rise for midlife women. For decades, data indicated that men were more likely than women to develop alcohol use disorders (AUDs) like binge-drinking. While that still ...

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 ...

Retirement may be time for a lot of fun things, but an increase in drinking shouldn’t be one of them, experts say. A rise in drinking for people 65 and older is a big problem given the greater health ...

Nearly five years ago, on February 14, 2020, I had my last drink. I saw it as a Valentine’s gift to myself—choosing self-love over chemically induced self-soothing. But before that day, I had spent ...