Opioid use is one of the most common addictions in the US. Opioids, if used as per a prescription, can ease pain. However, when taken unsupervised, can be addictive. Common examples of opioids include ...

Addictions to smoking, alcohol and the internet were common in patients with psoriasis, according to a study. Maximilian C. Schielein, MD, of the department of dermatology and allergy at the Technical ...

A man drinking at a bar. (Photo by Darlene Alderson.) As many people can probably guess, most of us aren’t born with an addiction, so how do people become addicted to something, anyway? The Substance ...

Over my 50-year career as an addiction researcher, these are the most common misconceptions I've heard about people with alcohol and drug addictions. Myth 1: Addiction is a bad choice. Many people ...

I said I'd use the next few posts to share what I learned at a recent conference on behavioral addictions. I should emphasize that the conference, held in Budapest, was billed as the the First ...

For years, researchers have known of this seemingly incredible phenomenon: patients with addictions spontaneously losing those addictions after a brain injury, such as a stroke. “These were patients ...

Research from USC suggests most people aren’t addicted to social media but acting out of habit, and mislabeling it may ...

According to a new survey conducted by the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan, about 13% of adults between the ages of 50 and 80 meet the criteria for ...

That’s because Carnes has long been a proponent of the idea that it is very common for people to have multiple addictions, or cross addictions. For example, a person may be a drinker, smoker and ...

Local damage such as stroke lesions in the brain can lead to spontaneous remission from addiction, where patients can easily quit their addictions immediately following injury, with no cravings or ...

Broadcaster Ore Oduba, known for his 2016 Strictly Come Dancing win, has publicly revealed his nearly three-decade-long battle with porn addiction for the first time. Speaking on Paul C Brunson’s We ...

Marijuana or cannabis use is one of the most widely spread addictions in the US. According to the results of the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2022, 22% of people aged twelve and ...