Alcoholism is a brain disorder where people can't stop drinking despite the harmful effects on their lives. Treatment options include medications, behavioral therapies, and social support groups.

1 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States 2 Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States Since the mid 1980 ...

While alcohol use disorder, formerly called alcoholism, is considered a disability, it may not qualify you for all disability-related benefits by itself. Substance use disorder affects millions of ...

Alcoholism has devastated countless lives, often quietly over long stretches of time. The impact of alcohol addiction does ...

Native Americans of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Whiteclay, Nebraska, have filed a $500-million lawsuit against beer manufacturers for the devastation that alcohol has wreaked on their ...

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) was founded by the National Council on Alcoholism (now the NCADD). Alcoholism and alcohol abuse cause significant social and medical harm, and ...

Alcohol-craving rats have provided researchers with a detailed look into the complicated genetic underpinnings of alcoholism. Alcohol-craving rats have provided researchers with a detailed look into ...