Comments you assume will be helpful may instead feel unsupportive or judgmental to a person with AUD. Find out how to best offer support, using our experts’ advice.

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 ...

Many surgeons recommend giving up smoking, alcohol, or drugs before surgery, but researchers have found this may also ...

Recent analysis of federal health data suggests that the recreational use of LSD is associated with a lower likelihood of ...

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 ...

Alcoholic insanity is an outdated term to describe alcohol-induced psychosis.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 ...

Atai Life Sciences announced positive results from a Phase 2a study of BPL-003, a synthetic intranasal treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD), showing that a single dose combined with relapse ...

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, ...

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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 ...