As we've discussed numerous times before, some nutrition nanny activists, regulators, and plaintiffs' lawyers have embraced and promoted the concept that food can be "addictive." The term grabs people ...

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 ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

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 ...

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 ...

Porn addiction is arguably the diagnosis of our time. The idea has thrived in a time of anxiety about the proliferation of free, ever-intensifying adult material — and how it might be changing our ...

Readers react to a guest essay critical of the concept of codependency and tough love. To the Editor: Re “No, Love Doesn’t Make You an Enabler,” by Maia Szalavitz (Opinion guest essay, July 10): Tough ...

Trysh Travis has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and its offshoots. When a man claiming to suffer from the disease ...

If you're skeptical about the ease with which addiction diagnoses are handed out these days, this study may be up your alley: This article takes a critical look at the recent history of the concept of ...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cybin Inc. (NEO:CYBN) (OTCQB:CLXPF) (“Cybin” or the “Company”), a biotechnology company focused on progressing psychedelic therapeutics, today announced that it has ...

Now that the holidays have come and gone, it’s time to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “Did I really need to eat the whole box of chocolates?” If you did it in one sitting, you may suffer from ...

“You can’t reinvent the wheel.” This phrase very vividly and visually describes a simple yet powerful philosophy: if it works, don’t change it. And when it comes to the automobile industry, the ...