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What causes alcohol addiction? Study investigates
Rats that persistently choose alcohol despite negative consequences have the same altered signaling mechanism in the brain as human addicts, a study shows.
9 Things You Should Know About Porn Addiction
Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood
Understanding the root causes of addiction can help us to better treat it.
Going booze-free? The effects of a month without alcohol
Dean Burnett: What does swearing off alcohol for a month do to a person? What scientific effects can it have?
Why Not Start Addiction Treatment Right In The ER?
Like asthma or diabetes, opioid addiction is a chronic condition. Could treatment that begins when people show up in the ER get them on the right road faster?
Let's Get Our Facts Straight About Sex Addiction
6 Surprising Ways Alcohol Affects Your Health — Not Just Your Liver
How we treat pain currently may contribute to opioid addiction
The pain intensity scale is often used to monitor a person's pain. But focusing too much on pain intensity could be contributing to the opioid epidemic.
Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?
The idea that addiction is typically a chronic, progressive disease that requires treatment is false, the evidence shows. Yet the "aging out" experience of the majority is ignored by treatment providers and journalists.
Are Older Americans at Risk for Alcohol or Drug Addiction?
Rates of alcoholism and painkiller addiction are growing among older adults, and the negative effects can be worse in later life. Are you at risk?
The horrifying way some drug addicts are now getting their fix
“When you have this kind of addiction . . . people will do just about anything to obtain these drugs, and they usually do,” a DEA official said.
How Alcohol Addiction Attacks the Brain
There is a lot of controversy over how to view alcoholism: Is it a disease or a matter of choice<br>It would seem, at first glance, that “addiction” and “choice” are mutually exclusive, and therefore alcohol addiction must be a problem of compulsion rather than rational agency. The American Medical Association defined alcoholism as a disease in 1956. Under the disease model, the addicted brain has…
Why We Can't Blame Abuse on Alcohol
It’s all too often heard that someone’s partner is only mean/violent/abusive when they’re drinking. “If only he [or she] stopped drinking, we’d be fine.” Unfortunately, this argument seldom holds water. Put...
Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction
A young man’s suicide highlights issues in the treatment of A.D.H.D., as youths fake symptoms to feed their addictions to potentially dangerous stimulants.
Anatomy Of Addiction: How Heroin And Opioids Hijack The Brain
Roughly 2.5 million Americans are addicted to heroin and opioids like Oxycontin. Researchers say addiction takes over the brain's limbic reward system, impairing decision making, judgment and memory.
How Alcohol Affects the 'No-Go' Receptors in Your Brain
Researchers show that alcohol use weakens the neurons that usually tell us to stop drinking, pointing toward treatments for alcoholism.
Do alcohol ads really influence teen drinking?
New research looks at the impact when teens viewed more TV ads for alcoholic beverages
Does My Loved One Have an Addiction Problem?
Do you worry a loved one has a problem with drugs or alcohol? The symptoms and signs of addiction damage every area of the loved one’s life, including relationships, career and health. Too often family members live in constant hurt, fear and desperation as they watch a loved one destroy themselves in their disease. Much of that desperation stems from not knowing how to help their loved one.
Why honeybees may be key to understanding alcohol addiction
The behavior of honeybees may hold the key to future studies of alcohol addiction, according to new research.
How to Overcome Alcohol Addiction Part II
This substance abuse, like tobacco, can start in the teen years for various reasons. In fact, survey results from the National Institute of Health indicate that 28.6 percent of the 12th graders and 40 percent of the college students reported binge drinking. Again, “binge drinking” is defined as five or more drinks on the same occasion. Surveys reveal that binge drinkers can down as many as six to nine drinks in one setting...
