Bars are often a go-to date spot, which can make it harder for sober curious single people to find their match. Current dating trends see potential couples moving away from bars and toward alcohol-free activities that might expedite meaningful connection. Dry dating doesn’t have to be awkward–just be upfront about…
Alcohol plays a social role in many college students’ experiences, as they celebrate the end of final exams or football victories. While there’s nothing wrong with having a drink if you’re of legal drinking age, it’s important to have a game plan first, which is where our safe drinking tips…
As the gender gap closes between male and female drinking habits, more and more women in America are becoming sober-curious. Women tend to drink to cope with negative affect, while men tend to drink to reinforce positive emotions. Female bodies process alcohol in more damaging ways than male bodies. Women…
Parents who use marijuana are more likely to discipline their children, using both violent and non-violent methods.Read: Back to Basics, Child Therapy Researchers from Ohio State University interviewed 3,023 parents of children 12 years or younger. The team asked about recent and past use of alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamine, and other…
Alcohol doesn’t just affect the person drinking it. According to the Alcohol Research Group, around 1 in 5 Americans are harmed as a result of someone else’s drinking every year. Researchers analyzed US national survey data from 2015 and saw that 23% of men and 21% of women experienced significant…
Drinking even a small amount of alcohol, like one pint of beer, can significantly impair our driving abilities. Researchers from the University of Sussex question the current legal limit. Study participants drank a cocktail containing enough alcohol to keep them within the legal limit for driving. These doses were equivalent…
Alcohol use disorder or AUD diminishes men’s ability to process their emotions. This effect isn’t as significant in women. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine used MRIs to analyze brain activity in individuals with AUD. They found that the experiences and mechanisms of AUD are different for the two…
New research found that middle aged US adults are experiencing rising feelings of despair, indicated by increases in depression, suicidal ideation, drug and alcohol abuse. A drop in US life expectancy was seen in 2016 and explained by an increase in deaths among middle-aged white individuals in rural areas due…
Binge drinking in our teens can lead to anxiety later in life. Researchers from University of Illinois at Chicago discovered that binge drinking in adolescence increases our risk of developing a mental illness, like anxiety, later in life. This is true even if we stop the bad habit while still…
Some people aren’t capable of identifying when they’ve had enough to drink. Consequently, they drink way too much. A UC Santa Barbara study found a brain mechanism that senses the negative effects of alcohol, like headaches and dizziness. It alerts us to these effects and helps to control the urge…
Some people become more aggressive or violent when they drink alcohol; they pick fights with others, shout, and say inappropriate things. The reason certain individuals display this aggressive behavior after alcohol consumption is that alcohol lowers inhibitions and relaxes. When we drink excessively, these inhibitions decrease and our tendencies to…
New research suggests that binge drinking in our teenage years can increase our risk of developing anxiety in adulthood. Furthermore, even stopping this bad habit while still in adolescence can produce the same effect. The researchers wanted to further explore claims that alcohol exposure in adolescence negatively affects the brain…