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

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

We humans tend to think that if we are to understand something, then we must know its cause. This is especially true when we seek to understand vexing problems such as global warming, cancer, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many researchers use the concept of ‘love addiction’ as a shorthand for exploring maladaptive romances.Illustration: Rita Liu/The ...

Responses to this question are as varied as the backgrounds of the responders. Old-timers in AA are likely to dismiss this issue with the comment that “alcohol causes alcoholism.” But there are less ...

Distinct brain circuits drive two key components of addiction to the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, according to a new finding published in Nature (2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07440-x). The ...