Heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of a type of brain injury linked with memory and thinking problems. That’s according to a new study in which researchers defined heavy drinking as ...

Dear Annie: My best friend and I, both 54-year-old females, met two weeks before kindergarten. Except for a couple of years, we have stayed friends throughout our lives. We see each other every few ...

Examining genetic, family, and personality characteristics may help identify those who are at high risk for drinking and drinking problems as teenagers. A study, published in Alcohol: Clinical and ...

Our editorial partner STAT, the health and medicine publication, has a new multipart series on what they call the United States’ drinking problem and “nation in denial.” Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan ...

Most people associate drinking problems with youth and the early decades of adulthood. Yet in clinical practice, many alcohol problems first emerge after age 50, or quietly return during the second ...