A new study has found 43 per cent of drink spikers do it because they believe it's fun. About 130 of the 805 people surveyed told researchers they had added alcohol to someone else's drink without their knowledge, while eight said they had added another substance.

Binge drinking has traditionally been more common in Anglo-Saxon and northern European countries than Mediterranean countries.

The motto heard around the country this week will be: “Don’t serve alcohol to teens. It’s unsafe. It’s illegal. It’s irresponsible.” The We Don’t Serve Teens message will be promoted through public service announcements in national newspapers, national and regional magazine ads, over 3000 billboards, more than 1000 radio ads, as well as television ads, and other promotions.

As schools reopen around the country, a new study finds that parents and teachers should pay attention to alcohol prevention starting as early as fourth grade.

Heavy alcohol use can lead to structural and functional changes in the brain.
New findings show that even when structural damage may not be apparent, brain activation can still be reduced.
Researchers refer to this alcohol-induced damage as “latent lesions.”

A bad neighbourhood is known to contribute to the development and maintenance of an individual’s alcohol use and alcohol-related problems.

In a study likely applicable to men of other ethnicities, Tulane University researchers found that heavy drinking (more than 21 drinks per week) may increase the risk of stroke in Chinese men. The results of the study are published in the latest issue of Annals of Neurology.

If you think the big cities of Toronto and Montreal have the highest rate of alcohol and drug use problems, think again.

Alcoholism has traditionally been considered a male disease because there are many more alcoholic males than females.

Drinking malt liquor -- the cheap, high-alcohol beverage often marketed to teens -- may put young adults at increased risk for alcohol problems and use of illicit drugs, particularly marijuana, according to a new study of malt liquor drinkers and marijuana use by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).

Students who break university rules on alcohol and drug use in residence halls are often sent to counseling or educational programs. Little is known about the long-term effectiveness of these interventions. New findings show that the effects of brief motivational interviews on drinking problems are still apparent 15 months after initiation.

Men, extrovert people and those with positive expectations regarding alcohol use drink more than others, says Dutch psychologist Sander Bot. The amount a young person drinks is largely determined by how much others in the group drink. Friendly young people in particular, people who score high on the personality dimension friendliness, are sensitive to the influence of others on their alcohol use.