But researchers studying these issues face a problem: there is no official diagnosis of shopping addiction or compulsive shopping, which could help to stimulate further research and aid with ...

M ethadone is “the best tool we have” to fight opioid addiction, says Ashish Thakrar, a doctor at the University of Pennsylvania’s school of medicine. Yet many of his patients are unable to ...

They discuss how simple explanations to addictive behavior – like the General Addiction Liability theory – may be appealing for a unified treatment approach, but a deeper, more quantitively rich dive ...

Asheville, North Carolina — Katy Paige Rosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Asheville, recently realized what too much scrolling on her phone was doing to her. She estimates ...

As Brain Awareness Week (March 10-16) brings neuroscience into focus, it becomes imperative to examine addiction not merely as a moral failing but also as a chronic brain condition with ...

Experts say about 5% of the population has a compulsive shopping disorder, buut there is less research in this area of addiction than that of drugs and alcohol for example. What is clear however ...

BETHESDA, Md. — Nora Volkow, the federal government’s top drug addiction researcher, laughed when asked how a spate of recent policy changes at the National Institutes of Health had affected ...

It became pretty clear that during the year that my TV addiction was at its peak, I’d lost most of my friendships. Whenever a friend asked me to have dinner or go to an event, I’d make up an excuse ...

They hold training sessions on using them and help people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction return to their jobs and families. They work closely with the federal government through an ...