CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recent survey found one in eight people say they are addicted to certain foods -- but a study shows true food addiction is a bit controversial. New research in the journal ...

The word “addiction” is probably over-used in our culture. Clinically, it means compulsive use of drugs; colloquially, we stretch its use to refer to addiction to things that probably don’t fit the ...

A number of surveys show that a substantial proportion of U.S. smokers don't smoke every day. And their ranks appear to be growing. Up to 15 million U.S. smokers say they don't light up on a daily ...

Why do stressful moments so often push people toward habits like drinking? A new study from Texas A&M University offers one ...

Submit a chapter to an upcoming edited book about Sociology of Addiction. Sociological approaches have become increasingly prominent and topical in the multidisciplinary field of addiction research.

The sex addiction recovery movement not only complements the progress made toward a sex-positive culture, it reinforces it. In the past decade, the public has gradually gained an awareness and careful ...

A modest opposition to the brain disease concept of addiction has been mounting for at least the last decade. Despite the good intentions behind the brain disease rhetoric – to secure more biomedical ...

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Detroit Recovery Project founder and CEO Andre Johnson (left) with a fellow Detroiter, R&B artist Kem. (Photo credit: Brittney Keith, rolling out) Dr. Andre L. Johnson, a native Detroiter, is the ...

A year ago, as she went into the final week of organizing and planning for the inaugural “Hijacked” addiction and recovery summit, Jan McCoy would have been elated had 50 people showed up. She’s a ...