The risk that alcohol poses to women’s health has mounted over the last two decades, as women have begun to drink more ...

Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful ...

A new, preclinical study links estrogen to binge drinking in women. When offered alcohol, female mice drank it more quickly if their estrogen levels were high, researchers at Weill Cornell ...

Too much alcohol can be deadly in the summer heat, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism warns, as 1 in 6 ...

“Older adults who drink do so more frequently than people under 65,” says George F. Koob, PhD, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, adding that the data shows a ...

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), binge drinking is defined as a pattern of drinking that brings blood alcohol concentration to 0.08% or higher.

All sources agree that binge drinking, heavy drinking, and alcohol use disorder are serious public health problems, and none directly endorse starting or increasing alcohol consumption for any ...

The definition of binge drinking stems from the work of Henry Wechsler, a social psychologist at Harvard University who in 1993 tracked alcohol use among college students across the country.

Now, new data shows that during the COVID-19 crisis, American adults have sharply increased their consumption of alcohol, drinking on more days per month, and to greater excess. Heavy drinking ...