Maybe you are one of these persons who can go out one evening with friends, enjoy a couple of drinks without feeling the need for more. Or maybe, with time, your style of drinking has become more secret and more frequent, until a time comes where you realise you can’t function without alcohol in your system. You realise that the negative effects of your drinking habit surpass its benefits and the pleasure you once felt. Shame and guilt suddenly surface in your mind as you try to keep your compulsions under control. Until you finely ask yourself the big question…

Aged 1,693 years, its contents are probably still safe to drink.

There is an increasing body of evidence linking alcohol consumption to an increased cancer risk - and now scientists in the UK believe they have found a plausible explanation.

A 2017 Global Drug Survey (GDS) covering hundreds of thousands of people around the world has ranked recreational drugs from the safest to the most dangerous, based on how many hospital admissions they lead to.

Alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors for the onset of all types of dementia, especially early-onset dementia. This according to a nationwide observational study of over one million adults diagnosed with dementia in France.

With its poppy history of battling with fellow sugar-giant PepsiCo, Coca-Cola has given us a lot of things. In its illustrious past spanning a century and a quarter, the beverage mammoth has finally gone and done it — it's finally coming out with a drink with alcohol in it!

Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color

The unique role of the temperance movement in US history might explain why, when it comes to Americans' tastes, bland beer is still king.

As if you needed another reason to indulge in a Saturday morning mimosa, a 2010 study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine found a link between educational achievement and higher alcohol consumption among British men and women.

The science is clear that alcohol raises the risk of cancer, but boozemakers don't want you to know.

Researchers are changing how they study the risks of alcohol — and it’s making drinking look worse.

Coca-Cola has launched its first alcoholic drink, a lemon flavoured alcopop, in Japan in a bid to tap new markets and consumers. In a global first for the US drinks giant, three fizzy lemon drinks went on sale on Monday. The product aims at a growing market of young drinkers - especially women.

Even when drinking the same amount as others, only some people experience blackouts. But blacking out can predict other problems down the line.

One of Japan’s leading whisky bloggers discusses the shortage of good Japanese single malts, the state of the country’s whisky industry, and how to order a highball.

Scientists in a small Ontario laboratory are testing enzymes and experimenting with fermentation. Their techniques are not new, but their focus is a first. They are developing what is being described as the world’s first beer brewed from cannabis. Most cannabis beers on the market are brewed from barley and infused with marijuana oil, according to Dooma Wendschuh of Province Brands, the Toronto startup behind the product.

Today, it's a party trick, but two centuries ago, sailors tested the legitimacy of their booze by setting it aflame.

Governments should consider advising people to abstain entirely, say authors

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If you ship whiskey on a river, does it taste better? We wanted to know, so we ran an experiment.

Researchers believe they have found the world's oldest brewery in a prehistoric cave in Israel.

Hub Stadium, an Auburn Hills bar that features axe-throwing lanes, had its liquor license suspended by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission for one day in order to develop new safety procedures and precautions. Candy asses.

Researchers at Brown found that alcohol hijacks a conserved memory pathway in the brain and changes which versions of genes are made, forming the cravings that fuel addiction.

Teenage drinking has declined across Europe, with the most dramatic falls in Britain, the World Health Organization has found.

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10k

Use some of these to win a free night of drinking from your clueless buddies.

It’s the most lethal day of the year, researchers say. But don’t blame stress or gluttony for the death rate’s spike. Why the real culprit may be good news for U.S. health care.

Cider and wine get a seasonal kick from simmering with spices--and beer can, too.

It's the holidays, so maybe you've been drinking too much. And maybe you've been dealing with a few too many hangovers. But no more.

The only thing worse than a drunk text is a drunk holiday text. Here's how to protect you from yourself this New Year's Eve.

Ever wonder why we celebrate New Year’s Eve with champagne? The answer dates back at least 1,500 years. And it involves a mix of history, location and -- not least -- skillful marketing.

I thought that it’d be fitting to end 2013 with a savory breakfasty recipe, perfect for international hangover day, also known as January 1st.

The desire to eat high-fat foods after drinking too much is rooted in human’s earliest, humblest beginnings, some scientists say.

A passenger who became unruly after allegedly drinking too much alcohol had to be taped to his seat on a trans-Atlantic flight.

Card folds into a shot glass for on the spot drinking.

Why would someone care about the manner in which their martini was mixed? Stirring is the world's favorite manner of mixing fluids, probably because it is much easier and requires less equipment than shaking. If shaking is superior, I was determined to find out why.