Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What the data says about drinking alcohol and poor health. (Getty Images) (d3sign via Getty Images) As one of his final acts as ...

Alcohol is considered a carcinogen, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Even mild drinking is toxic to the body, contributing to long-term disease. Yet in many cases you can reverse that damage, ...

Alcohol is the culprit behind the United States' most enduring and overlooked drug crisis. Here are 6 takeaways from STAT's ...

A new review published in the journal Addiction confirms drinking causes substantial harm to health. Some of those harms may ...

Summary: A new comprehensive review reinforces the substantial toll alcohol consumption takes on global health. The research ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Despite mounting evidence that connect drinking to multiple ...

The Deadliest Drug, a new investigative series, shows that the alcohol epidemic is a generational failure of the medical and ...

Ethyl alcohol is a food, a drug, and a poison, depending on how it is used. Alcohol use can be socially and medically beneficial, a lubricant of human interactions and an extender of life. [1] Alcohol ...

The debate about the definition of alcoholism was alive even before American physician, Benjamin Rush, called it an addiction and a disease in 1808. Before then, most people considered it a moral ...

The author's father was an alcoholic who didn't fit the stereotypical image of a town drunk. Alcoholism is a serious disease affecting the brain, often leading to health complications and relapse. The ...