Sober living

Your loved one may be aware of some of the effects of alcohol use, but not of others. Research suggests that denial may be experienced by people with alcohol use disorder. You, too, might realize that your relationship with alcohol is negatively affecting your life. During an intervention with a loved one, family members show […]

Sharma et al. (2014) showed that male mice that binge drank alcohol developed rapid tolerance to alcohol-induced increases in non-rapid-eye-movement sleep, measured by electroencephalography and electromyography. Male and female rats exhibited rapid tolerance to alcohol’s sedative effect during adolescence on postnatal day 36 and during young adulthood on postnatal day 56, whereas no rapid tolerance