Breast cancer survivors who smoke are at increased risk for a second cancer, a new study shows.

Frequent alcohol consumption by teenage girls may increase the chances that they will develop non-cancerous breast disease in their 20s and possibly breast cancer later in life.

A “café-style” diet of fatty, sugary food results in compulsive overeating among rats and may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine, according to a study.

American teens believe that smoking cigarettes is riskier than using illicit drugs or binge drinking, a new government report shows.

An analysis of data from 2004 to 2008 found that 44.3 percent of blacks aged 18 and older drink alcohol, compared with that national average of 55.2 percent.

Combined treatment with the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline) and the alcoholism drug naltrexone may prove an important advance in the treatment of alcoholic depressed patients.