Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

A prominent journal, with a long history of publishing on sex and relationship issues, makes a statement that it will no longer publish articles on sex or porn addiction.

A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person's risk of developing an ...

A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person’s risk of developing an addiction and their educational attainment. Researchers found that some genetic ...

Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...

Can marijuana really be addictive? Despite decades of popular belief to the contrary, addiction specialists warn that the ...

“How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the animating question behind Owen Flanagan’s “What Is It Like to Be an Addict?” An emeritus professor of philosophy and neurobiology at ...