New research from UC San Diego found that cannabis use among youth may be responsible for 13% of new cases of regular tobacco ...

Pets often become attached to a specific dog toy, bed or blanket. Some even keep them from the time they are small pups on, ...

Kinship reports that a study suggests dogs can exhibit toy addiction-like behaviors, such as ignoring food and being ...

The U.S. opioid crisis has varied in severity across the country, leading to extended debate about how and why it has spread.

Over 29.3 million Americans consider themselves in recovery from drug addiction. Some return to drugs, but some recover ...

Yet another junk epidemiological study claims that "ultra-processed" foods are addictive. The research is little more than a ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) report that the gene, CHRNA3, acts as a key regulator of alcohol sensitivity. Published in ...

Hundreds of studies have found that certain foods affect some people similarly to addictive substances like nicotine.

GLP-1 drugs, originally developed for diabetes and obesity, may also curb addictive behaviors by acting on reward circuits in ...

The blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on drinking, new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry suggests. In a study of around 228,000 people in Sweden who had ...

(NewsNation) — Scientists in recent days have been having flies taste cocaine to build a model to study the disorder and work towards better therapies, a report said. The researchers used Drosophila ...

There is a lot of interest in the question of if too much sex, sexual desire, masturbation, or viewing of pornography is an addiction like to alcohol or cocaine. In fact, an early version of the new ...