For people with an addiction, craving—the strong desire for a substance—can affect their decision-making, new research shows.

Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain ...

Not all drug users are the same. To understand different profiles of patients that use addictive substances, research frameworks typically classify cases by ...

The brain disease model of addiction holds that SUDs are chronic, relapsing brain diseases and that relapses are symptoms, and part of the expected course, of the disease (Morse, 2017). As with other ...

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. After decades of research, Professor ...

It is well known that addiction is not, from a psychiatric point of view, a stand-alone issue. For example, people with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder are much more prone than the general population ...

Grace Point Treatment Center has released an educational article examining “how drug addiction is assessed and treated within licensed clinical environments”. The resource is positioned as an ...

Quality addiction treatment is easy to misunderstand because many programs sound similar online. Websites often use the same buzzwords like “personalized care,” “evidence-based practices,” “luxury ...