HBNS.org - Parents who have regular meals with their adolescent children - especially girls - might help lessen the chances they will start drinking or smoking later in their teen years, according to new research.
Past studies have shown that family meals provide many benefits, including offering a venue for parents to communicate with their adolescents [...]

MUSC.edu - Individuals with alcohol dependence are offered hope through a recent study of Topamax (topiramate ) by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina.
In a landmark study, MUSC researchers working with investigators at the University of Virginia Health System and elsewhere have found that topiramate, an FDA-approved medication, not only decreases heavy drinking, [...]

Harvard.edu - Heavy alcohol use, or binge drinking , among college students in the United States is tied to conditions in the college environment. That is one of the key findings from research conducted by researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS), a landmark 14-year study that surveyed more than [...]

Babies conceived during a period of famine are at risk of developing addictions later in life, according to new research published in the international journal Addiction. Researchers from the Dutch mental health care organization, Bouman GGZ, and Erasmus University Rotterdam studied men and women born in Rotterdam between 1944 and 1947, the time of the [...]

Health Behavior News Service - It’s hard to stay sober when you’re depressed, even if you are in a recovery program, according to a new study of people with alcoholism that reminds us of the importance of dual diagnosis treatment.
Researchers from the Minneapolis VA Medical Center documented the quitting success of 462 people with alcohol [...]

UNC.edu - People with clinical addictions know first-hand the ravages the disease can take on almost every aspect of their lives. So why do they continue addictive behaviors, even after a period of peaceable abstinence?
Some answers appear rooted in regions of the brain active during decision-making and related to impulsive choices.
“It’s perhaps not just that [...]