Experts call for standardized diagnostic criteria, stronger clinical evidence, and public health measures to improve the ...

Many people associate addiction with things like alcohol, caffeine, or video games. These are the habits most of us ...

Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behavior and tendencies, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The findings, published in ...

Behavioral economics provides a framework to understand when and how people make mistakes. The new field of behavioral economics blends insights of psychology and economics, and provides some valuable ...

A massive genomic study uncovers how shared behavioral traits and substance-specific biology together shape addiction risk, offering new directions for prediction, prevention, and treatment. Study: ...

Although self-harm is not formally classified as an addiction in the DSM-5-TR, some experts argue that it can manifest as a behavioral addiction due to its effects on the brain’s reward system.

Whenever I mentioned the phrase “pornography addiction” to a classroom of firefighters, there were snickers of laughter followed by pointing at one particular guy in the room, nodding their heads in ...