A new episode of "My Strange Addiction" airing on Wednesday, January 21 features vabbing, snakes and a grass eater.

While many people binge-watch their favorite shows, binge-watching addiction is associated with loneliness, according to a ...

The events of October 7 and the war led to a quiet rise in compulsive behaviors, including sex addiction – a mental ...

Researchers out of Spain and Italy report a globally pooled Internet Gaming Disorder prevalence of 6.1% among adults ages ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Resurgence Alcohol & Drug Rehab Riverside has published a new educational resource examining what patients can expect during ...

New Swinburne-led research has found that the use of mobile devices by primary school-aged children for gaming, social media ...

Addiction doesn’t take hold of a person’s life overnight, according to a local expert who says the condition develops slowly ...

Using a mouse model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, researchers found that early, chronic cannabidiol treatment ...

Nearly 15 percent of U.S. adults continue to smoke, often because long-term health risks feel too abstract compared with the ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...