Recently I found myself at a Writers’ Festival in Sydney Australia, extremely jet-lagged, flogging my book, doing radio interviews a couple of times a day... And the same question kept coming up: Is ...

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Prescient Medicine created a genetic test to assess individual risk of opioid addiction, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science. Researchers developed the test after ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

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 ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

In a study with 18 adults who had never smoked, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have demonstrated one of the earliest steps — nicotine "reinforcement" — in the process of addiction, and shown ...

With the influx of media coverage around alcohol usage and its health risks, I thought I would take a look at my addictions and the science behind them. My father was an alcoholic from his adolescence ...

Discovered: looking at violent images is unhealthy; a smart carpet; the gene that could be responsible for Internet addiction; infrared camera finds public drunks. Camera locates drunks in public.

Researchers used fruit flies to uncover genes that regulate both dopamine levels and sleep. By screening pigmentation-related ...