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.

State laws that require immediate suspension of the driver’s license for failing an alcohol breath test have had a deterrent effect on drunk driving and saved 800 lives from fatal crashes each year, new research shows.

Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are a necessary part of an individual's healthy diet. New findings indicate that binge-drinking men have lower intakes of n-3 fats, one type of EFA.

Alcohol-impaired driving continues to cause thousands of deaths per year.
New findings indicate that immediate suspension of a driver's license is a highly effective deterrence. Timing appears to be even more important than the severity of the sanction: the quicker the better.

Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure does not always lead to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS); sometimes it can lead to cognitive and behavioral deficits in the absence of craniofacial features needed to make an FAS diagnosis.

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.

Changes to the UK licensing laws have trebled the number of overnight visits to emergency care for alcohol related problems, reveals research in Emergency Medicine Journal.

Lindsay Lohan has left a Malibu rehab center after a stay of more than six weeks. The "Mean Girls" star, who turned 21 on July 2, left Promises Malibu Alcohol and Drug Rehab Treatment Facility on Friday, according to a report on People magazine's Web site Sunday.

According to a study by the research group "Alcoholism and drug addiction", of the Universidad de Granada, although there are no specific reasons to become alcoholic, many social, family, environmental, and genetic factors may contribute to its development. Thanks to this study, researchers have shown that the lack of endorphin is hereditary, and thus that there is a genetic predisposition to become addicted to alcohol.

Analyses of a national sample of individuals with alcohol dependence(alcoholism) reveal five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to a new study by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).