Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful relief. Excessive alcohol consumption remains a leading cause of death and ...

Binge drinking is defined as consuming at least four drinks for women and five drinks for men in a single drinking session, at least once every 14 days on average. New research suggests that binge ...

How excessive alcohol use in adolescence causes temporary and permanent changes to brain function. How excessive alcohol use - especially begun during adolescence - impacts somatostatin levels in the ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying driver of prolonged negative feelings caused by repeated, sustained binge ...

Even occasional binge drinking could triple the risk of advanced liver fibrosis, a new USC study suggests, highlighting the ...