While it is common for people to try alcohol in adolescence, alcohol use in teens can be detrimental to health and may affect brain development and mental health. While teens usually drink less often ...

Alcohol Awareness Month was developed to increase awareness and understanding of the causes and treatment of one of our nation’s top public health problems: alcoholism. Alcohol Awareness Month allows ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Kenneth E. Leonard, PhD, director of the University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions (CRIA), has been appointed to the Program Advisory Board of the National ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdose deaths in the United States were four times more prevalent in 2018 than in 1999, and drug overdose deaths increased by 30 ...

According to national estimates, nearly 2.2 million U.S. adolescents aged 12–17 met the criteria for at least one substance ...

A new study from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation finds that recreational marijuana legalization may increase the risk of alcohol and marijuana ...

People who reported multiple symptoms consistent with severe substance use disorder at age 18 exhibited two or more of these symptoms in adulthood, according to a new analysis of a nationwide survey ...

Peer pressure hasn’t gone away. It’s just gone digital. Through surveys of more than 260 high school freshmen and sophomores, FIU Center for Children and Families researchers found friends still hold ...

Drug and alcohol use associated with increased adolescent firearm homicide Substance use is associated with an increased risk of adolescent firearm homicide. Drug and alcohol use at the individual, ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdose deaths in the United States were four times more prevalent in 2018 than in 1999, and drug overdose deaths increased by 30 ...