ALLMedicine™ Alcohol Use Disorder Center

Jul 1st, 2022 - Topiramate is widely prescribed to treat a variety of conditions, including alcohol use disorder (AUD). We used electronic health record (EHR) data to measure topiramate's effects on drinking in individuals differentiated by a history of AUD. Para...

Jul 1st, 2022 - Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are common and may predispose affected individuals to various health problems, including alcohol use disorder (AUD). Although a relationship between ACE and AUD has been well-established, potential mechanisms th...

Jul 1st, 2022 - Substance use disorders (SUDs) are major contributors to morbidity and mortality globally, but they are often underrecognized and underdiagnosed, particularly in some sociodemographic subgroups. Understanding the extent to which clinical diagnoses...

Jun 29th, 2022 - Unhealthy alcohol use (UAU) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, contributing to 95,000 deaths annually. When offered in primary care, screening, brief intervention, referral to treatment (SBIRT), and medication-assi...

Jun 28th, 2022 - Problematic alcohol use and depression are prevalent in the college student population. The purpose of this study was to identify how personality and social-contextual factors in the first year of college work together to predict stable and potent...

Sep 7th, 2018 - The chronic use of alcohol can lead to the onset of an alcohol use disorder (AUD). About 50% of subjects with an AUD may develop alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) when they reduce or discontinue their alcohol consumption and, in 3-5% of them, conv...

Jan 3rd, 2020 - As a result of sustained operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, there are an increasing number of U.S. military personnel and Veterans at risk of developing both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and an alcohol use disorder (AUD). If left untreate...

Feb 1st, 2022 - A new framework can be used to identify those who have alcohol use disorder (AUD) by looking at the pathways that lead them to alcohol abuse, thus being more effective in helping treat them, according to researchers at the University of Missouri. ...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Three weekly infusions of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine coupled with mindfulness-based relapse prevention therapy may help adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD) maintain abstinence, new research suggests. Preliminary results from a phase 2...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - Naltrexone reduces the risk for hospitalization for alcohol use disorder (AUD), regardless of whether it is used alone or in conjunction with disulfiram or acamprosate, new research suggests. Investigators analyzed 10-year data on more than 125,00...

Sep 2nd, 2020 - Alcohol use is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the harmful use of alcohol results in about 3 million deaths worldwide each year, which is 5.3% of all deaths. Alc...

Sep 2nd, 2020 - Alcohol use is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the harmful use of alcohol results in about 3 million deaths worldwide each year, which is 5.3% of all deaths. Alc...