Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of background, education, or income. It often starts subtly—using alcohol to unw ...

A digital detox helps regain control over social media habits, breaking addiction cycles for improved mental well-being and productivity. Social media has become a central part of modern life, ...

Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those around them. People have long debated whether addiction is a habit or a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Last year, more than 107,000 people died from a drug ...

We deal with a lot of inherently traumatic things in medicine every day. We see people die or get terrible injuries. We see people who have lost control of their lives. We convince ourselves that it ...

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

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...