No content on this site, regardless of date, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician. A doctor may order additional tests to find out whether alcohol-related damage to the liver, stomach or other organs has occurred. During an office visit, a health care professional [Continue]

Activation of the HPA axis and CRF-related brain stress circuitry resulting from alcohol dependence likely contributes to amplified motivation to drink. Similarly, systemic administration of antagonists that selectively act at the CRF1 receptor also reduced upregulated drinking in dependent mice (Chu et al. heroin addiction 2007) and rats (Funk et al. 2007; Gehlert et al. [Continue]