addiction

Drug abuse, especially by celebrities, needs to be reported honestly with no diluting the health care facts related to addictive behaviors.

America’s addiction to prescription drugs is fed via the Internet, not just through prescriptions signed by a doctor.

In the world of addiction, denial remains the first symptom in a long list of self-deluding behaviors.

If no amount of talk at an AA meeting can cure polio or measles, why do we insist that addiction is really a disease?

Charlie Sheen may be firing torpedoes at the Trolls in order to defeat his demons -- but since those demons do live within, the torpedoes will only end up hitting himself.

BEIJING (AP) -- China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing millions of lives in the country with the world's largest number of smokers, experts warned Thursday....

"I have a beautiful wife and three daughters and active in my church. I'm ashamed of my addiction to porn, but can't stop or get enough."

Using brain-imaging scans, researchers study the postrelationship feelings of jilted lovers still pining for their exes.

Turns out, it looks a lot like addiction

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) -- Some bariatric surgery patients may trade one type of addiction for another, according to a small study of patients who entered substance abuse programs after surgery.

A new study suggests that a small number of frequent indoor tanners may have an addiction to the behavior, and show higher rates of anxiety and depression than their paler peers