Scientists hunt down the brain circuit responsible for alcohol cravings

Mar 19, 2019, at 09:13 pm

Los Angeles, Mar 19 (IBNS): Scientists at Scripps Research have found that they can reverse the desire to drink in alcohol-dependent rats—with the flip of a switch. 

Middle-aged drinkers should have alcohol free days, urges health chiefs

Sep 10, 2018, at 05:58 pm

London, Sept 10 (IBNS): A YouGov poll has found that one in five of UK adults are drinking above the Chief Medical Officer’s low risk drinking guidelines and more than two thirds of these say they would find cutting down on their drinking harder to do than one or more other lifestyle changes - improving their diet, exercising more, or reducing their smoking, if they were smokers.