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 ...

When most people hear the word addiction, they picture someone whose life has visibly unravelled. Yet addiction is often ...

This may represent a common mechanism underlying both food addiction* and drug addiction, which would make the concept of addiction transfer more likely than once thought. Possible Risk Factors for ...

There’s a popular misconception that people choose one drug, one compulsion, one vice and stick with it for life, or at least until they find their way into recovery. More commonly, people find what ...