Alcohol Use
Survey: More US teens abstaining from drugs, alcohol
More than 60% of 12th graders who responded to a yearly survey of junior high and high school students reported not using alcohol, cannabis or nicotine in the past 30 days — the highest level of abstention in the survey’s history.
Researchers advise limit of 7.4 grams of alcohol per day in early steatotic liver disease
Researchers recommended that patients with steatotic liver disease who are at a lower risk for advanced cirrhosis should consume no more than 7.4 grams of alcohol per day, the equivalent of a half a 12 oz. beer or half a glass of wine.
Abstaining from alcohol may lower risk for severe visual impairment, blindness in glaucoma
Patients with open-angle glaucoma who abstain from consuming alcohol may be at lower risk for severe visual impairment and blindness, according to a review published in JAMA Network Open.
‘Downstream effects’ of alcohol use disorder swell in wake of COVID-19
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With alcohol-related disease still on the rise after surging during the COVID-19 pandemic, an expert here discussed treatment options, including liver transplantation, for patients with alcoholic hepatitis.