When people see compulsive and damaging behaviors in friends or family members -- or public figures such as celebrities or politicians -- they often focus only on the substance use or behaviors as the ...

We propose that changes in the transcriptional potential of genes, through the actions of drug-regulated transcription factors, chromatin modifications and non-coding RNAs, contribute substantially to ...

It has been more than 10 years since China's health ministry officially recognized "Internet Addiction Disorder" as a disease. And although the evidence for such a designation remains far from solid, ...

A common saying at our treatment center is that we all know a loved one, either a friend or family member, who struggles with addiction. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

This article will cover how individuals in Solihull around those who may be struggling with an addiction may aid them in ...

What is video game addiction? What are its boundaries, its symptoms, its treatments? How wide is its scope? And is it even a medically recognised condition in the first place? In Part One of this ...

Addiction is a chronic condition that is difficult to diagnose and treat. While the signs can be clear, diagnosis first relies on the person with an addiction or people close to them acknowledging and ...

Sometimes it becomes imperative to seek inpatient treatment for an addiction. It may have become clear that one’s current treatment isn’t enough and imposing a break from a cycle of addictive behavior ...