The body doesn't process alcohol and food the same, so cutting boozy calories doesn't always mean quick weight loss. Focus on other benefits instead.

Holly Ramsay, 22, gave up alcohol over a year ago. She said it can be lonely for someone her age, but that it's possible to "find the right people."

People with alcohol-use disorder were given three infusions that were a ketamine or a dummy solution alongside therapy or education.

A Capitol insurrection and COVID-19 altered plans for an alcohol-free January in 2021, but 2022 might be different — Americans are feeling "sober curious."

"Occasionally he would go on a bender or a coke binge. We had to stop production," former CEO Jeff Bewkes said of Gandolfini.

The more successful Dom McGregor became, the more he turned to alcohol until his cofounder had to intervene. Now, he's been sober for five years.

Former Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia still remembers the night he hit rock bottom, and the years of binge drinking with MLB peers that preceded it.

In a first draft of its action plan to reduce alcohol abuse, the WHO made one mention of pregnant women and those "of childbearing age."

Obsessively thinking about alcohol may mean you have a "gray area" drinking problem, even if you don't have an official diagnosis.

Demi Lovato said she suffered three strokes and a heart attack after her 2018 overdose. She said doctors told her she was less than 10 minutes away from death. Lovato plans on sharing the full details of her overdose and battle with addiction in her upcoming documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing […]

Deaths linked to alcohol misuse in 2020 were up 16%, per stats from England and Wales. The causes are uncertain, but it could be related to the stress caused by the pandemic. More services are needed to support those with alcohol dependence, said one expert. Visit the Business section of […]

Melissa Petro is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and two children in New York City. In her mid-20s, Petro says she struggled with an alcohol addiction. She would drink recklessly and way too much, often racking up a hundred-dollar bar tab in one night. When her drinking […]

Retail alcohol sales in the US have been strong during lockdowns. Insider spoke with Dr. Antonio De Filippo about how to identify problematic drinking and how to address it. If you find yourself missing or underperforming at work, feeling generally more fatigued, or getting into legal trouble because of your […]

Policy decisions at the state and local level have made it relatively easy to get alcohol even as shutdowns affect the availability of other goods. But moments of economic and psychological stress, like a pandemic, have negative effects on the way people consume alcohol and on their long-term health outlook. […]

Substance use disorder researchers told Business Insider that the trauma of a pandemic may cause a spike in addiction. A 2008 analysis published by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention found that the hospitalisation rate for alcohol use disorders rose 35% in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “9/11 and […]

WalletHub determined which states are the most sinful using data based on seven key vices. The seven vices were anger and hate, jealousy, excesses and vices, greed, lust, vanity, and laziness. For example, WalletHub based how vain a state is on metrics like the number of beauty salons per capita […]

A senior Navy SEAL with the platoon being kicked out of Iraq for misconduct has been accused of sexually assaulting a female service member working with the team, The New York Times reports. The Washington Post initially reported that the platoon, SEAL Team 7’s Foxtrot platoon, was sent home for […]