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Two new resources are available to help both patients and clinicians determine which medicines may be most helpful to them in treating alcohol-use disorder (AUD). The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a research agency of the U.S. Department ...

Substance use usually begins in adolescence, but may be rooted in developmental changes that occur as early as the prenatal period.  Psychological, biological, social, and environmental factors, which start influencing a child even before birth, can converge with genetic makeup ...

Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, who has been an addiction researcher for 40 years, a policy maker in federal drug control, and a parent who lost a son to overdose midway through his career, has focused his work on understanding addiction ...

A new study examines the role of digestive bacteria in determining which heavy drinkers will develop liver damage. Researchers at the French Hopital Antoine-Beclere noted that alcoholic liver disease (ALD) occurs in some people who abuse alcohol and not others, ...

Research on the neurobiology of addiction reveals a complex, chronic brain disease with three recurring stages. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, three of the most distinguished scientists in the addiction field, Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of ...

Mutual help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, SMART Recovery, Women for Sobriety and others have long been an integral part of recovery from alcohol addiction. Participants frequently cite the fellowship, peer solidarity, community, and camaraderie they experience as part of ...