ALLMedicine™ Alcoholism Center

Aug 5th, 2022 - Vibrio vulnificus infections develop rapidly and are associated with a high mortality rate. The rates of diagnosis and treatment are directly associated with mortality. We describe an unusual case of a 61-year-old male patient with chronic liver d...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - Self-medication of pain with alcohol is a common, yet risky, behavior. Evidence suggests family history of alcoholism may affect the degree to which alcohol use relieves pain, but the independent contributions of expectation and conditioning have ...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - NEXT is a seven-year longitudinal assessment of a representative sample of U.S. adolescent and young adults starting at grade 10. The goals of the NEXT longitudinal study include: to identify the trajectory of adolescent health status and health b...

Aug 1st, 2022 - Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is prevalent, devastating, and difficult to treat. The majority of therapeutic approaches to date have relied on pharmaceutical modulation or and/or psychotherapy. With a growing knowledge of the neural circuits that con...

Jul 29th, 2022 - Liver-related diseases are associated with the high levels of morbidity and mortality in people living with HIV. Between 13% and 18% of all-cause mortality in HIV-infected patients involves a liver-related damage, this being one of the main causes...

May 25th, 2022 - According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than half of Americans ages 18 and older reported drinking alcohol in the past month, and about a quarter of this same group reported past-month binge drinking. To help adults who ...

Sep 10th, 2020 - To establish national standards of care for screening and counselling pregnant women and women of child-bearing age about alcohol consumption and possible alcohol use disorder based on current best evidence. Health care providers who care for preg...

Sep 10th, 2020 - Établir des normes pancanadiennes fondées sur les meilleures données probantes actuelles sur le dépistage et les conseils en matière de consommation d'alcool et de troubles de consommation d'alcool chez les femmes enceintes ou en âge de procréer. ...

Jan 29th, 2013 - Alcohol misuse is an important source of preventable injuries in the adolescent population. While alcohol screening and brief interventions are required at American College of Surgeons-accredited trauma centers, there is no standard screening meth...

Jun 13th, 2009 - Ethical considerations for administering alcohol or alcohol cues to treatment-seeking alcoholics in a research setting: can the benefits to society outweigh the risks to the individual? A commentary in the context of the National Advisory Council ...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - Self-medication of pain with alcohol is a common, yet risky, behavior. Evidence suggests family history of alcoholism may affect the degree to which alcohol use relieves pain, but the independent contributions of expectation and conditioning have ...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - NEXT is a seven-year longitudinal assessment of a representative sample of U.S. adolescent and young adults starting at grade 10. The goals of the NEXT longitudinal study include: to identify the trajectory of adolescent health status and health b...

Aug 1st, 2022 - Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is prevalent, devastating, and difficult to treat. The majority of therapeutic approaches to date have relied on pharmaceutical modulation or and/or psychotherapy. With a growing knowledge of the neural circuits that con...

Jul 26th, 2022 - Extending previous findings, and applying a novel multi-method translational approach, this project hypothesizes that there are alcohol-related neuroendocrine and neural changes observable in acute and protracted abstinence, and which can accurate...

Jul 20th, 2022 - Chronic subdural hematoma A chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) is a bleeding of the bridging veins between the dura mater and the arachnoid. Subdural hematomas are one of the most common forms of hemorrhage affecting mostly elderly people. The estim...

Jun 17th, 2022 - Menopause gets a bad rap in medical literature and throughout society, say authors of a new analysis. And they argue that the negativity undermines women’s health outlook in the years that should be a natural life transition.

Jun 1st, 2022 - Guidelines for the management of alcohol-related liver disease were published in April 2022 by the French Association for the Study of the Liver (AFEF) in Liver International.[1] Use the AUDIT-C questionnaire in general practice and specialist con...

May 25th, 2022 - According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than half of Americans ages 18 and older reported drinking alcohol in the past month, and about a quarter of this same group reported past-month binge drinking. To help adults who ...

Mar 4th, 2022 - Light to moderate alcohol consumption -- as few as one or two drinks a day -- was linked with reductions in overall brain volume, a cross-sectional study showed. Among nearly 37,000 healthy adults in the U.K. Biobank, alcohol intake was negatively...

Feb 15th, 2022 - A novel scoring system proved accurate for predicting which patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis are at high risk of short-term mortality, according to researchers. In a derivation cohort, the so-called Mortality Index for Alcohol-Associated...