Drinking

With the NCAA March Madness tournie and St. Patty's Day right around the corner -- take warning when heading out to your favorite watering hole. Starting March 13th through April 3rd, 160 police agencies throughout Michigan will be cracking down on drunk driving.

In an interest to curb drinking among college students, Penn State researchers have created a new scientific approach, involving early intervention, that they believe will help students avoid becoming heavy drinkers in the future.

If you are a college student living off-campus and throwing parties, you are likely drinking more than your partygoers, according to a new Ohio State University study.

According to a survey involving about 450,000 adults, 17 percent of Americans are binge drinkers.

In the quest to discover why some people drink heavily while others don’t, researchers have found the answer may actually be quite simple: brain differences between the groups make alcohol consumption feel better to the heavier drinkers.

A new study published in the November issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs may have found a potential link between older adults, financial woes, and alcohol and tobacco usage.