With billions of active users across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other social media platforms, cutting down on screen time ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

Many researchers use the concept of ‘love addiction’ as a shorthand for exploring maladaptive romances.Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian Elizabeth Gilbert was using people like drugs: a point she ...

Inside the massive dining room at San Patrignano, windowed walls overlook northern Italy's rambling hillsides. Taking in the arresting view is a 20-year-old from Detroit. Sometimes Michael is ...

The first time I saw Maya (not her real name) huddled under blankets in a hospital bed in 2013, she had been to dozens of inpatient detox programs and residential treatment centers since she had begun ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

Generative AI can surprisingly steer people toward an addiction of any kind, either by insidious deceit or via accidental triggering. In today’s column, I examine an important question about the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lipi Roy writes about addiction, mental health and entertainment. The talk of the town at this year’s American Society of ...