Binge Drinking in US Adults Linked With Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The researchers aimed to identify COVID-19-related stressors associated with changes in alcohol consumption and binge drinking since the pandemic began.
The researchers aimed to identify COVID-19-related stressors associated with changes in alcohol consumption and binge drinking since the pandemic began.
With COVID-19 having truly disastrous effects, the study authors sought to uncover the toll of substance abuse during the pandemic.
This study looked at a population of young adult social drinkers to compare individuals who show binge drinking behavior to those who do not on measures of empathic processing and associated neural responses.
Cirrhosis disease burden in women has increased substantially since 2000.
This study is the first to prospectively examine the impact of an extreme drinking episode on the brain morphometry of emerging adults.
This study provides an empirical examination of coping motive pathways to alcohol problems during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For US veterans with unhealthy alcohol use, reducing drinking may improve or resolve various conditions including pain interference symptoms and substance use, although most correlations are not significant.
Researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2018 to assess the impact of drug and alcohol use on cardiometabolic disease risk factors.
In 2018, about 5 percent of U.S. adults engaged in heavy drinking during the previous year.
Alcohol abuse independently increases the risk for mortality in patients with arrhythmia by more than 70 percent.