Fluctuations in progesterone moderate the relationship between daily mood and alcohol use in young adult women.

CONCLUSIONS: Women's likelihood to drink increased when they experienced negative mood in the context of decreasing levels of progesterone, whereas the negative-mood/drinking association was mitigated among those with increasing levels of progesterone. However, compared to women who on average had an overall more positive mood, women with an overall lower mood (and corresponding higher levels of depression and anxiety at baseline) did not experience the protective effects of rising progesterone levels on drinking. PMID: 31639640 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31639640?dopt=Abstract

Source: Addictive Behaviors - October 14, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Holzhauer CG, Wemm SE, Wulfert E, Cao ZT Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research