For those battling addiction, the decision to seek help represents one of life's most difficult but crucial choices.

Recovery from addiction or mental health challenges is often portrayed as a deeply personal journey, but in reality, it is ...

Entering a residential treatment program is a significant step in the recovery journey. For many individuals, it represents a ...

A neuroscientist explains how highly processed foods may be key to “food addiction.” She also reveals some solutions ...

Shahroo Izadi is a behavioural change specialist. Her new book How Diets Make Us Fat explores why traditional approaches to ...

Food Addiction is currently not listed in the DSM-5 framework, a diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not harmful. In layman’s terms, it’s ...

Psychiatrist Robert Custer spent his life convincing doctors that compulsive gambling was not an impulse control problem. Today, his research is foundational for diagnosis and treatment.

Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.

A clinical psychologist termed Tyler Skaggs a "high-functioning" addict in the years prior to his 2019 overdose death, tracing a pattern of use that preceded the Los Angeles Angels pitcher’s fatal ...

Tyler Skaggs was an opioid addict for at least six years prior to the Los Angeles Angels pitcher’s 2019 death, an addiction expert testified on Wednesday, Dec. 10 in the ongoing wrongful death trial ...