April is Alcohol Awareness Month

April is Alcohol Awareness Month

CDC information: Excessive alcohol use, including underage drinking and binge drinking can lead to increased risk of health problems

CDC information: Alcohol screening and brief intervention

CDC information: Frequently asked questions about alcohol and public health: Individual reactions to alcohol vary, and are influenced by many factors including family history of alcohol problems

Did you know? The HuGE Navigator includes more than 3000 scientific articles on genetic factors associated with alcohol use and adverse health effects, including 80 genomewide association studies. The most commonly studied genes are ALDH2 ADH1B and ADH1C

Genetics and epigenetics of alcohol dependence
Vanessa Nieratschker et al. J Molecurlar Psychiatry (2013)