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 ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

Carlos insists that his addiction to eating live bugs is harmless despite his partner’s fears in a new episode of “My Strange Addiction” airing on Wednesday, January 14. In TLC’s “My Strange Addiction ...

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 all like to believe that we can distinguish between love, attachment, and addiction. After all, love is something everyone craves, attachment is how we form meaningful bonds, and addiction... well, ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...

GLP-1 medications may quiet the brain signals behind addiction, reducing substance use disorders and overdose risk across ...

Apocalypse or snowstorm? For a nervous few days, we worried that life as we know it in New York would be undone by a monster blizzard. As it turned out, we didn’t get the feared 36 inches. But as we ...

We’ve all gotten carried away adding too much stuff to our online shopping basket once in a while, or have chucked a few extra items in the trolley, telling ourselves we deserve a treat. But shopping, ...

Problematic TikTok use must be considered an addiction for the risk it entails and its developmental trajectory, scientists have warned.