Men struggling against addiction are often socially impoverished. Their relationships, when they exist, are often negative.

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Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs. By Jan Hoffman The message ...

Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and the director of the school’s Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, has been treating addiction for more than two decades. Early in ...

Cam Adair finally realised that his addiction to video games was out of control when it made him consider ending his life. "I struggled with it for 10 years," he says. "I dropped out of high school, ...

This review discusses: (a) classification and diagnosis of addictions; (b) studies demonstrating the role of heritable variation in addiction and the overlap of heritable influences across drug ...

The series turned a voyeuristic lens to people with unusual habits, but it did raise awareness of various compulsive disorders.

Addiction is a long-term condition, like asthma, diabetes, or high blood pressure. Of course, the goal is to stop using drugs or alcohol completely and not relapse. But when you see your addiction as ...

Sex addiction describes a compulsive need for sexual acts, similar to alcohol or opioid use disorders. However, it’s not recognized in the DSM-5, so identifying exactly what it looks like is tricky.

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Look up from this screen right now. Take a look around. On a bus. In a cafe. Even at a stoplight. Chances are, most of the other people in your line of sight are staring at their phones or other ...