{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Recovery News | Mental Health & Addiction Recovery","title":"The Warning Sign Before the Drink: Risk-Taking Rises Before Drinking Does","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d5c39ddb\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":207,"description":"The Warning Sign Before the Drink: Risk-Taking Rises Before Drinking Does\nIn a year-long smartphone study of people with alcohol use disorder, increases in risk-taking behavior predicted increases in drinking the following month — and the reverse was not true — suggesting relapse has a detectable runway that could one day trigger just-in-time support.\nSource\nIncreased risk-taking behavior precedes higher alcohol consumption, study finds — News-Medical (Oct 19, 2026), on Zech, H., et al. (2026), \"Fluctuations in Real-Life Drinking in Alcohol Use Disorder: A 1-Year Longitudinal Study Using Gamified Tasks of Decision Making and Cognitive Control,\" Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, DOI 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.07.019. Study teams: University Hospital Würzburg and Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1HMwgudOv-9iLP25S2rFy3To1lXT_m4L2ceV1SNYp_k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NWQ4/NzUyZmIxMzg4YjVk/YzI2NWVkOGVkYmQ0/NzBkOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}