alcohol

Federally Funded Study Links Marijuana Use to Reduced Heavy Drinking

Marijuana use is linked to lower alcohol intake and diminished cravings in heavy drinkers, according to a new federally funded…

September 10, 2025

“Balance Your Buzz”—A Student-Led Alcohol Harm Reduction Initiative

Alcohol plays a role in the lives of many college students, and is often experienced as pleasurable or beneficial. Like…

September 2, 2025

How Hopeful Should We Be About Ozempic for Alcohol Use Disorder?

The media has recently been filled with stories about how diabetes drugs like Ozempic (generic name semaglutide) might additionally be…

July 28, 2025

A Brief History of LSD Treatment for Alcohol Addiction at the VA

Characteristics of the “psychedelic renaissance” of recent years have included numerous studies indicating benefits of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic use—with…

May 14, 2025

Given Few Options for Chronic Pain, Prisoners Are Making Safer Moonshine

Moonshine, hooch, julep, toilet wine, clear—whatever they call it, over the past 30 years Tennessee’s prison bootleggers have improved their…

November 12, 2024

A Clash of Drinking Cultures for US Students in Italy

One of the first major cultural contrasts I was warned about as an American studying in Rome was the vastly…

January 26, 2024

The Rise and Fall of Confrontational Alcohol Addiction “Treatment”

Confrontational counseling, sometimes known as attack therapy, is most commonly associated with so-called "therapeutic communities" for people with addictions. It…

January 18, 2024

Cannabis Legalization Linked to Reduced Tobacco, Alcohol Use in Young Adults

Another federally funded study is suggesting that marijuana legalization may be linked to a “substitution effect,” with young adults in…

November 30, 2023

Why I Won’t Celebrate National Recovery Month

It’s National Recovery Month. But I won’t be evangelizing about my recovery, taking the first or any other step on…

September 14, 2023

A Prison Breakup Tested My Meth Recovery. Alcohol Helped Me Keep It.

I met Paul in 2018, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. I was an admin orderly; he was a new…

June 28, 2023