Following her alleged 2023 attack on her then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen, Taylor Frankie Paul claimed she didn’t remember much. When she confessed that she’d been drinking vodka prior to the fight, ...

Social drinking can sit on the slippery slope to alcoholism. People - and culture - can sometimes intertwine solitary drinkers with addiction. However, alcoholism often starts out when drinking among ...

Proposed changes to the psychiatric profession’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, have caused a recent uproar, with critics worried that the new label of “alcohol abuse disorder” will overdiagnose young ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When picturing a “typical” alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the ...

When picturing a "typical" alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol problems, say the authors of a new ...

It started out fun. Bottomless mimosa brunches, brewery tours, happy hours that turned into the best nights. But somewhere along the way, something shifted. Or maybe it was always a problem but you ...

The next time some blustery college kid boasts on Facebook about how wasted he was last night, don’t just roll your eyes. He may be telegraphing he’s got a drinking problem, according to research ...

Can heavy drinkers moderate their drinking? The most straightforward answer is that some can, some cannot, and others simply do not yet know. What matters most is not forcing a premature conclusion ...