Thank you for your question. The issue of sex addiction is serious so I appreciate that you brought it up. My first question would be, “what makes you say you are addicted to sex?” While you are ...

Maybe you read that study that showed constantly checking your phone is slowly strangling your relationships (or the follow-up research that confirmed this). Maybe you were horrified by the finding ...

Dr. Dodes' recent article, titled "The Myth of Addictiveness" reminded me of his other posts to a large extent, but also of a recent article on All About Addiction claiming that the notion of "loss of ...

In severe addiction, individuals spend much time and effort in procuring drugs for subsequent use that may not be in rich supply or immediately available, despite considerable risk of personal, ...

The brain disease model is the most prevalent model of addiction in the western world. Particularly in the United States, it dominates professional and public discourse on prevention, treatment, ...

It’s hard to talk about addiction. The American war on drugs has dedicated over half a century to treating addiction like a crime rather than a disease—portraying drug abuse as a moral failing instead ...

A Rutgers-led study found that genes related to impulse control and reward processing are major factors in addiction risk. Researchers analyzed genetic data from over 2.2 million people to understand ...

All participants completed the stop-signal task from the Cambridge Cognition Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB, Cambridge Cognition Ltd., Cambridge, UK). They were instructed to press the left ...

Genes tied to impulse control, reward processing and risk‑taking play a larger role in addiction risk than genes linked to any single drug, according to a major new Rutgers‑led study. Analyzing ...