Drinking Alcohol Abuse in the News

Topiramate: Personalized Treatment of Alcohol Abuse
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Researchers at Penn Medicine have shown that the anticonvulsant medication, topiramate, previously shown to reduce drinking in patients committed to abstaining from alcohol, can also be helpful in treating problem drinkers whose aim is to just curb …
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Ask Healthy Living: What Is Alcohol Tolerance?
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So why can some people handle their liquor better than others? First, it's important to define what, exactly, tolerance is. There are two ways of thinking about it, says George F. Koob, Ph.D., the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and …
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