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THE DAY JOE Breen realized he had a problem, he was standing at the top of the stairs in his Massachusetts home during a classic case of man vs. spider web, trying to get rid of the unwelcome visitor ...

Alcohol addiction is a complex but treatable condition, and there are more treatment options available now than ever before. According to the national survey on drug use and health, in 2023, about ...

“Mom, I need to drop my classes this semester. I had a really bad stomach flu and I can’t get caught up. I hope you understand.” You are concerned by this message. Your college student, Ben, also ...

The blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on drinking, new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry suggests. In a study of around 228,000 people in Sweden who had ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. In 2017, Katie Lain was blacking out several times each week from drinking alcohol. On weeknights, ...

To report this series about the U.S. alcohol epidemic, Facher and Cueto interviewed more than 100 health researchers, doctors, patients, industry insiders, and lawmakers. They also reviewed scientific ...

Certain behavioral effects of not getting enough sleep may explain why people who have insomnia are at risk for problems with alcohol. A study of college students, published in Alcohol: Clinical and ...

STAT News has been exploring America's troubled relationship with alcohol. Here’s the key fact: Alcohol kills more Americans than all other drugs — about 178,000 people a year. But a few small changes ...

Seija is a postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and associate fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. As a physician ...