The word “addiction” is probably over-used in our culture. Clinically, it means compulsive use of drugs; colloquially, we stretch its use to refer to addiction to things that probably don’t fit the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recent survey found one in eight people say they are addicted to certain foods -- but a study shows true food addiction is a bit controversial. New research in the journal ...

A modest opposition to the brain disease concept of addiction has been mounting for at least the last decade. Despite the good intentions behind the brain disease rhetoric – to secure more biomedical ...

For Oliver Neubert, Chairman and Founder of NEOVIVA, a private recovery clinic in Switzerland, addiction is never just about drugs or alcohol.

Before 1934, the idea was that alcoholism was a moral weakness. People who were viewed as alcoholics were looked down upon by society and seen as having weak wills to stop the drinking that resulted ...

A number of surveys show that a substantial proportion of U.S. smokers don't smoke every day. And their ranks appear to be growing. Up to 15 million U.S. smokers say they don't light up on a daily ...

The sex addiction recovery movement not only complements the progress made toward a sex-positive culture, it reinforces it. In the past decade, the public has gradually gained an awareness and careful ...