Dr. Drew Pinsky stopped by 'The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast' to share everything he knew about addiction recovery.

Explore how cocaine activates over 10 percent of neurons in the nucleus accumbens, influencing addiction-related behaviours.

The new book “The Science of Revenge” explores the neuroscience of revenge, and how its addictive potential could make it ...

Recovering "revenge addict" James Kimmel Jr. makes the case for retaliation to be understood as an addiction in new book The Science of Revenge. It's compelling, but doesn't quite add up ...

Your favorite coffee shop—where you stop every day—is closed. You groggily navigate to a newly opened coffee shop a couple blocks away, which, you're pleased to discover, actually makes quite a good ...

Some critics have jumped on this gap to argue, reductively, that addiction is simply about people choosing pleasure: nothing more than "people take drugs because they enjoy it." Both the brain ...

This apparent contradiction aligns with clinical definitions of addiction and with brain disease models, which suggest that repeated substance use changes brain function, making drug use ...

Asheville, North Carolina — Katy Paige Rosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Asheville, recently realized what too much scrolling on her phone was doing to her. She estimates ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Addiction is more than just a habit—it’s a powerful force that rewires the brain, making it increasingly difficult to break free. Behavioral scientist Dr. Gino Collura joined ...

For decades, medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease, but the concept has always been something of a hard sell to a skeptical public. That is because, unlike diseases ...