Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive alcohol use, loss of control over alcohol intake, and a negative emotional state when not using. You may ...

Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Key Takeaways Substance use disorder makes it hard to stop using substances even when they're harmful.Using the term "substance use disorder" helps separate ...

About 27 million American adults, roughly the population of Texas, struggled with alcohol use disorder last year, according ...

About 640,000 people were suspected of having had an alcohol addiction at least once in their lives. Read more at ...

Alcohol-induced psychosis can happen after intoxication, during withdrawal, or it can be chronic among people living with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Here’s what it looks like. Alcohol is a ...

Researchers are studying whether these widely used weight-loss drugs may also be future treatments for alcohol abuse.

While most people with a friend or family member with alcohol use disorder (AUD) mean well, it can be easy to inadvertently say something that hurts more than it helps. In fact, even calling someone ...

Excess drinking and alcohol use disorder (AUD) is common, not easily diagnosed, and often undertreated, with less than 15% of individuals with a lifetime diagnosis receiving any treatment. While ...

The alcohol use disorder (AUD) market is set to grow due to unmet clinical needs, limited efficacy of current therapies, and rising demand for better-tolerated treatments. Expanding label indications, ...

Neurobehavioral disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE) is a mental health condition that results from exposure to alcohol before birth. It is a type of fetal alcohol spectrum ...

Around 3.04 million people in Japan are believed to suffer from alcohol use disorder, the same level as in the previous study ...

Alcoholic insanity is an outdated term to describe alcohol-induced psychosis. This is a rare condition in which alcohol use disorder, acute alcohol intoxication, and alcohol withdrawal can cause ...