Hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorders

J MacKillop, R Agabio, SW Feldstein Ewing… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous
drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is associated with acute and …

Diagnosis and pharmacotherapy of alcohol use disorder: a review

HR Kranzler, M Soyka - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Alcohol consumption is associated with 88 000 US deaths annually. Although
routine screening for heavy alcohol use can identify patients with alcohol use disorder …

Pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M McPheeters, EA O'Connor, S Riley, SM Kennedy… - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Alcohol use disorder affects more than 28.3 million people in the United States
and is associated with increased rates of morbidity and mortality. Objective To compare …

Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention

ND Volkow, C Blanco - World Psychiatry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are highly prevalent and exact a large toll on individuals'
health, well‐being, and social functioning. Long‐lasting changes in brain networks involved …

Exenatide once weekly for alcohol use disorder investigated in a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial

MK Klausen, ME Jensen, M Møller, N Le Dous… - JCI …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder that accounts
for 5% of deaths annually, and there is an urgent need to develop new targets for …

Advances in the science and treatment of alcohol use disorder

K Witkiewitz, RZ Litten, L Leggio - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Alcohol is a major contributor to global disease and a leading cause of preventable death,
causing approximately 88,000 deaths annually in the United States alone. Alcohol use …

[HTML][HTML] Novel agents for the pharmacological treatment of alcohol use disorder

EM Burnette, SJ Nieto, EN Grodin, LR Meredith… - Drugs, 2022 - Springer
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a highly prevalent but severely under-treated disorder, with
only three widely-approved pharmacotherapies. Given that AUD is a very heterogeneous …

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of alcohol-related liver disease

M Thursz, A Gual, C Lackner, P Mathurin, C Moreno… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The harmful use of alcohol has been estimated to cause approximately 3.3 million deaths
every year, corresponding to nearly 6% of all deaths globally. Therefore, the effective …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in stress-related alcohol use

MKR Peltier, TL Verplaetse, YS Mineur, IL Petrakis… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rates of alcohol use disorder (AUD) have increased in women by 84% over the past ten
years relative to a 35% increase in men. This substantive increase in female drinking is …

Early liver transplantation for severe alcohol-related hepatitis not responding to medical treatment: a prospective controlled study

A Louvet, J Labreuche, C Moreno… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Early liver transplantation for severe alcohol-related hepatitis is an emerging
treatment option. We aimed to assess the risk of alcohol relapse 2 years after early liver …