Nearly 50 million over the age of 12 reportedly have substance use disorders​, which can include addictions to alcohol or ...

Food addiction is not officially included as a recognized diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). However, it generally encompasses ...

Study reveals how addiction physically changes the brain, challenging the misconception that people struggling with substance ...

Arizona bill expanding drug addiction resources, to allow holding people for five-day detox I guess this was inevitable.

Andrew Drury, 42, was found unresponsive in the intake room of Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on Sunday afternoon.

Medications can help people quit drinking, smoking, or using heroin, but relapse is common, and there’s no effective medical remedy for addiction to stimulants like cocaine. “It’s very ...

According to Forbes, adults in the U.S. wagered an estimated $2.72 billion on the men's and women's tournaments combined at legal sportsbooks in 2024.

From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming ...

Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) have presented results from the HPTN 094 ("INTEGRA") study at the ...

But a new study links the proliferation of this type of betting to a rise in the number of people who might be addicted to gambling. A study published last month in the peer-reviewed JAMA Internal ...