Mixing alcohol and medication may be harming more than a quarter of older adults

RCSI researchers have found that the combined use of alcohol and medications cause more than one in four adults over the age of 65 to be vulnerable to potentially serious alcohol-medication interactions, which can lead to falls and other accidents, gastrointestinal bleeds and liver damage.

The study, conducted by researchers in RCSI’s School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, is published in the current edition of BMJ Open.