Key Takeaways Alcohol significantly impacts health, contributing to poor sleep, mood symptoms, high blood pressure and heart disease, liver disease, and cancer. Quitting alcohol can help prevent or ...

Phenobarbital is a medication that doctors may prescribe to treat alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) during detox. There are many risks associated with its use, and it’s typically only used in rehab ...

A shaky hand, a racing heart, a wave of dread; alcohol withdrawal can feel like your body has turned against you. For many people with alcohol use disorder, those early days without alcohol bring ...

This is the fourth installment in a series of posts on non-pharmacologic approaches to alcohol and drug abuse. Previous posts reviewed the evidence for weak electrical current for reducing symptoms of ...

Emergency departments may be missing opportunities to identify and treat people for problem alcohol use. A new study published in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research found that less than 1% of ...

Alcohol plays a role in over 200 diseases and injuries, contributing to more than 175,000 deaths in the U.S. annually and 3 ...

A common drug used for inflammatory skin conditions may hold the key to treating both alcohol addiction and pain sensitivity. That’s what scientists at a leading research institute have found. In a ...

Withdrawal is a constellation of aversive symptoms—ranging from anxiety, tremors (“the shakes”), and nausea to hallucinations and frank seizures—brought on by the sudden stoppage or dosage drop of ...