In its early stages, gadget addiction in children can show up as tantrums over device use, according to clinical and family ...

Illustration of these stages with the story of Funke Funke was a brilliant 21-year-old law student, but her roommates always teased her for refusing to drink alcohol. After three months, she ...

Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction." ...

As he does every year, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) asked the Senate on Wednesday to balance the federal budget by trimming a few pennies from every dollar that the government spends. Yep, it's ...

Cannabis addiction can destroy lives, but a thriving Reddit group is helping people quit the drug for good. ... Illustration by Andy Andersen. By Lester Black, Cannabis editor March 1, 2025.

Illustration of addiction. Nadezhda Bormotova/Getty. While the cutbacks have left chronic pain patients struggling to keep their prescriptions, they haven't stopped the ...

Dr. Fisher is an addiction physician and bioethicist at Columbia University. He’s the author of “The Urge: Our History of Addiction.” When we think about any addiction, we tend to focus on ...

Rand Paul's Plans To Balance the Budget Are a Useful Illustration of Congress' Addiction To Borrowing The budget could be balanced by cutting just six pennies from every dollar the government spends.

Photo illustration: Noah Friedman Many central banks and governments around the world want to kick their dollar addiction. They aren’t getting very far—except when forced.

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There’s a common view that people with addiction can’t be helped unless they choose to go into treatment. But the data on voluntary versus coerced and court-mandated treatment is not so clear-cut.

This prescient and punchy illustration, gorgeously minimal and shiny, shows that social media is an addiction, a kind of mirror feeding the user's ego with an empty diet. You can follow the latest ...