Most people have heard of the term 'sex addiction.' It has been around since the ’80s and is associated with sensational stories of celebrities booking themselves into a 'sex addiction' clinic after ...

As we've discussed numerous times before, some nutrition nanny activists, regulators, and plaintiffs' lawyers have embraced and promoted the concept that food can be "addictive." The term grabs people ...

The word “addiction” is probably over-used in our culture. Clinically, it means compulsive use of drugs; colloquially, we stretch its use to refer to addiction to things that probably don’t fit the ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

A number of surveys show that a substantial proportion of U.S. smokers don't smoke every day. And their ranks appear to be growing. Up to 15 million U.S. smokers say they don't light up on a daily ...

Adapted from "THE BIOLOGY OF DESIRE: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease" The idea that addiction is some kind of disease is unquestionably the dominant view in government, medical, and most scientific ...

A lot of our conceptions of addiction are pretty old-school. Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes: if you mention "addict," these are likely the concepts that come up. But the world is changing, and as new ...

From meditation to molecular science, addiction treatment is being reinvented. See how new breakthroughs are giving hope for recovery.

I'm an alcoholic, and I know why Dry January can mask a serious alcohol addiction - Dry January is widely considered a public ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Like spilled drinks, psychiatry’s concepts are sticky and have a tendency to spread. Over the past century several of the field’s ...

Most people have heard of the term 'sex addiction.' It has been around since the ’80s and is associated with sensational stories of celebrities booking themselves into a 'sex addiction' clinic after ...