AddictionJul 26, 2018
Sex Addiction
Sex addiction describes a compulsive need for sexual acts, similar to alcohol or opioid use disorders. However, it’s not ...
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AddictionJul 16, 2018
Early puberty in white adolescent boys increases substance use risk
White adolescent boys experiencing early puberty are at higher risk for substance use than later developing boys, a new study finds.
AddictionJul 5, 2018
Data-sharing website may speed the response to new illegal drugs
The NPS DataHub allows forensic chemists to share data on new drug analogs, including their chemical structures and signatures, which are the keys to identifying them in the lab.
AddictionJun 4, 2018
Opioid death rate accelerates in York County and fentanyl is tied in to almost all cases
After countless prevention efforts and a state of emergency, opioid deaths are still increasing in York County. That’s no ...
AddictionMay 24, 2018
An Overview of Addiction
An addiction is a chronic dysfunction of the brain system that involves reward, motivation, and memory. It’s about the way your ...
AddictionApr 23, 2018
Most Behavioral Addictions Get Better on Their Own
Behavioral addictions and process addictions at this point appear to reflect an over-focus on transient, limited behavior problems. Indeed, a follow-up study by these same researchers found that ...
AddictionApr 17, 2018
Nursing homes routinely refuse people on addiction treatment — which some experts say is illegal
Nursing facilities routinely turn away patients seeking post-hospital care if they are taking medicine to treat opioid addiction ...
AddictionMar 13, 2018
How America’s prisons are fueling the opioid epidemic
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make ...
AddictionFeb 15, 2018
Opioid epidemic: Anti-addiction drug Vivitrol now offered to inmates at Bergen County Jail
HACKENSACK — Thomas Sussina never had a chance. After he was introduced to opioids at age 11 by his drug-addicted mother ...
AddictionJan 12, 2018
What Are the Early Signs of Addiction?
Recognizing an addiction problem in someone you know can be harder than it seems. The American Society of Addiction Medicine ...
AddictionDec 19, 2017
Work Addiction
Work addiction, often called workaholism, is a real mental health condition. Like any other addiction, work addiction is the ...
AddictionNov 22, 2017
'Their hearts are hurting:' Surrounded by death, addicts in York inch forward in recovery
Jacob Norton doesn't want to become part of York County's deadly heroin epidemic — but he knows he came close. It was about ...
AddictionOct 29, 2017
Heroin-addicted cry out for treatment now, but help can be slow
An average of nearly 500 calls a day rang into Cincinnati's Center for Addiction Treatment (CAT) in September. The website caught ...
AddictionJun 1, 2016
Addictions are harder to kick when you're poor. Here's why
Most addictions end by the time users hit age 30 – unless they lack stable, middle-class jobs Addiction does discriminate: it ...
AddictionMay 27, 2016
The Brain Disease Model of Addiction
The brain has many regions that are interconnected with one another, forming dynamic networks that are responsible for specific ...
AddictionJan 27, 2016
Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
This article reviews scientific advances in the prevention and treatment of substance-use disorder and related developments in ...
AddictionAug 6, 2015
The Cognitive Psychology of Gambling
One of the proudest moments of my academic career was when my 1994 study on the role of cognitive bias in slot machine gambling ...
AddictionJul 28, 2015
The Psychology Of Live Online Casino Gambling
This empirical research also chimes with my own personal psychology of online gambling. One of the main reasons I don’t like gambling at Internet casinos is that I believe the majority of game outcome ...
AddictionJun 26, 2015
Your Porn Addiction Isn’t Real
The last time neuroscientists Nicole Prause (Liberos LLC at UCLA) and Vaughn Steele (Mind Research Network) published on porn ...
AddictionMay 24, 2015
Addiction treatment hard to find, even as overdose deaths soar
With nearly 44,000 deaths a year, more Americans today die from drug overdoses than from car accidents or any other type of injury.
AddictionSep 30, 2014
Study: Public Feels More Negative Toward People With Drug Addiction Than Those With Mental Illness
People are significantly more likely to have negative attitudes toward those suffering from drug addiction than those with mental ...
AddictionSep 24, 2014
Behavioral Economics of Addiction
Behavioral economics provides a framework to understand when and how people make mistakes. The new field of behavioral economics ...
AddictionJun 20, 2014
Opioid Epidemic
I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years. Here's What No One Is Telling You About The Opioid Crisis.
AddictionNov 17, 2013
Former NRL star tells of battle with pokies addiction and how he can help other addicts.
FORMER Parramatta Eels captain Nathan Hindmarsh talked frankly of his battle to overcome poker machine gambling addiction and how ...
AddictionApr 13, 2012
Guest column: Help and hope can overcome alcohol addiction
Alcohol misuse and addiction can be deadly, yet they are often a taboo subject; one that people either refuse to talk about, are embarrassed to talk about, or don’t know ...
AddictionFeb 3, 2012
Siblings’ brain scans could hold the key to drug addiction
Professor Chris Kennard, chair of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Board at the Medical Research Council which funded the research, said: “ Drug addiction devastates thousands of families in the UK ...
AddictionDec 4, 2011
The Seductive, But Dangerous, Allure of Gabor Maté
This post was written with Alan Cudmore. Gabor Maté is a distinguished figure in the addiction field, the author of "In the ...
AddictionOct 19, 2011
Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications
Neuroimaging studies have revealed an emerging pattern of generalized prefrontal cortex (PFC) dysfunction in drug-addicted ...
AddictionAug 15, 2011
Addiction now defined as brain disorder, not behavior issue
Addiction is a chronic brain disorder and not simply a behavior problem involving alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex, experts ...
AddictionMay 28, 2011
‘I have a hideous gambling problem’
Sydney - She's smart, capable and a loving mother to three young children but Rebecca is battling an often hidden feature of ...