I said I'd use the next few posts to share what I learned at a recent conference on behavioral addictions. I should emphasize that the conference, held in Budapest, was billed as the the First ...

Have you ever wondered what the most common addictions are in today’s society? Here, we will take a whistle-stop tour through them. According to Psychology Today, addiction is “a condition in which a ...

Opioid use is one of the most common addictions in the US. Opioids, if used as per a prescription, can ease pain. However, when taken unsupervised, can be addictive. Common examples of opioids include ...

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 ...

Health addictions can have devastating effects on our bodies, and one of the most severe consequences can be blindness. While we often associate addictions with substances like alcohol or drugs, there ...

Avery is vice chair for addiction psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and host of the podcast Thriving With Addiction. I’m used to hearing from people who disagree with me about addiction. I wasn’t ...

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. After decades of research, Professor ...

Local damage such as stroke lesions in the brain can lead to spontaneous remission from addiction, where patients can easily quit their addictions immediately following injury, with no cravings or ...