What is addiction, and how can we stop it? The complexities of addiction have stumped scientists for decades. Today, with 48 million Americans over the age of 12 suffering from a substance use ...

Addiction is a global problem. It is a human problem. It is a non-discriminatory offender. It does not care about your gender identification, your financial status, your skin color, your sexual ...

The mental health crisis among young people in America is an emergency, and social media is playing a big role, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warns in an op-ed published in the New York Times. In ...

A mother and father dead. A son arrested. A nation in shock. What happens when a family experiences the unimaginable?

Food Addiction is currently not listed in the DSM-5 framework, a diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric ...

The case of Nick Reiner has renewed a painful national conversation about addiction, parenting and the limits of treatment.

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east ...

Sex and love addiction is not an official psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, it is a colloquial (slang or informal) term used to describe a compulsive preoccupation with romantic relationships that ...

Pink cocaine is a new designer drug. It’s typically a powdery mix of ketamine and illegal substances likely dyed with food coloring. Sometimes it may have a sweet smell, like strawberries. The drug, ...

Love is in the air; we are only a few days away from Valentine’s Day. I love this time of the year. In fact, I love love. And I love seeing people in love. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if intense romantic ...