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Alcohol

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Brink Bites: BMI Objections, Studying UFOs, and Alcohol’s Impact on College Students

January 24, 2025
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Listen Now

Do Alcohol Ads Promote Underage Drinking?

April 1, 2024
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Aging Reimagined

10 Things to Do in Your 20s to Help Ensure You’ll Enjoy Your 80s

February 21, 2024
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Substance Use

Could Dunkin’s New Alcoholic Drinks Encourage Underage Drinking?

September 15, 2023
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Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Screenings Should Now Begin at Age 40

May 12, 2023
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Addiction Treatment

How Racism and Bias Influence Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

August 22, 2022
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Cannabis and Drunk Driving

Deadly Car Accidents Involving Cannabis and Alcohol Have Doubled in 20 Years

December 16, 2021
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Adolescence & Autism

How Autistic Youth Navigate Alcohol Use and Peer Relationships

July 7, 2020
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Addiction

Strengthening the Parent-Child Bond in the Face of Addiction

October 8, 2019
Richard Saitz, Boston University School of Public Health, SPH, Boston University School of Medicine, BUSM, MED, addiction research, evidence based medicine, SBIRT, Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment, CCM, chronic care management
Drugs

The Addiction Puzzle, Part 5: Bringing Scientific Rigor to Addiction Research

November 22, 2013
Marlene Oscar Berman, Susan Mosher Ruiz, Boston University School of Medicine, neurobiology, neurology, neuroscience, alcoholism effects on the human brain, how alcohol effects the brain, alcoholism and gender
Neurology & Neuroscience

The Addiction Puzzle, Part 4: Why Alcoholics’ Gender Matters

November 21, 2013
Tibor Palfai, professor of psychology, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, CAS, alcohol triggers, what makes people drink alcohol, why do people drink alcohol, addiction research, alcoholism research
Research

The Addiction Puzzle, Part 3: The Search for the Alcohol Trigger

November 20, 2013

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