Sentences with phrase «compulsive alcohol drinking»

Findings of a new animal study have revealed that there could be a way to turn off the urge for compulsive alcohol drinking.

George said he was surprised to see these rats completely cease their compulsive alcohol drinking, a change that lasted for as long as the rats were monitored.

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Despite ceasing their compulsive drinking, the animals were still motivated to drink sugar water, which means that the researchers were successful at targeting only alcohol - activated neurons, and not the overall reward system of the brain.

Meiklem J. determined that because B.F. was later able, in the face of the diagnosis of a life - threatening alcohol related condition, to reduce or eliminate his consumption, his drinking was not an unavoidable compulsive addiction, but rather a choice.