A mouse study highlights the role of acetylcholine in behavioral flexibility, offering new insight into the brain mechanisms involved in addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Researchers identify PV neurons in the prefrontal cortex as the gatekeepers of drug addiction relapse, offering a new target for precision treatment.

While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

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Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

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Researchers identify the anterior insula as the brain region responsible for biasing decisions toward alcohol over social rewards in addiction.

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have long helped people eat less — now, they’re showing promise in helping people crave less. A new analysis of records from over 600,000 diabetic veterans found that GLP-1 ...

Katy Perry shared with her fans that she hasn’t used nicotine in a few months. The "Teenage Dream" singer had previously ...

The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

The ‘gray area’ of addiction.

The musician, 60, who added that he sadly lost 'all of his peer group' to the disease, explained how he had put his symptoms down to 'drink and drugs' as his life was so de-railed by his addiction.