If you don’t want to bother or confront an addicted person, you may be enabling them. Covering for an addicted person when they get in trouble can enable them. Although it might seem like you’re helping them, you’re doing the opposite. While most enablers are well-meaning, they do more harm...

For the McGill study, researchers recruited 26 healthy social drinkers (18 men, 8 women), 18 to 30 years of age. The higher-risk subjects were then identified based on personality traits and having a higher tolerance to alcohol (they did not feel as drunk despite having drunk the same amount). Fi...