Some athletes are addicted to gambling, and recent scandals implicated pro athletes in major criminal gambling and cheating ...

Human gambling addiction has long been marked by behaviors like the illusion of control, the belief that a win will come ...

Drugs. Alcohol. TikTok. Internet games. Sex. An Ex. Chocolate. Slot machines. Shopping. Can these stimuli be addictive? The idea of being addicted to a process or behavior is very controversial.

These ultra-processed foods can trigger addictive behaviors that meet the same clinical criteria used to diagnose substance-use disorders. The authors from the fields of addiction science and ...

Many addictive behaviors are initiated in adolescence. During this developmental period, the brain is maturing through myelination, which is posited to continue until the age of 25 (Arian et al., 2013 ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study ...

Digital technology—and especially the Internet—has revolutionized the way we work, study, socialize, and entertain ourselves. Alongside the global ...

Among the panoply of films in this year’s Jewish film festivals from around the world, as seen in Boulder’s very successful ...