Myths About Addiction The processes that give rise to addictive behavior resist a simplistic explanation. There is not just one cause: Although genetic or other biological factors can contribute ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which shuns the term addiction (but nevertheless, confusingly refers to addictive disorders), instead prefers the term substance ...

In an age of endless scrolling, Dr Catherine Carney warns she is seeing a growing number of people referring themselves to ...

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. With drug addiction, you can’t resist the urge to use them. If you’re worried that you or a loved one may have an addiction ...

NSDUH only queried opioid misusers about opioid use disorder symptoms. After they changed the protocol and asked all ...

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“Compulsive uncontrollable drug use with impairment in social and occupational function” is a relatively well-accepted phenotype-like definition of drug addiction, but it really says little ...

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