The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked: In reality, 70 percent of office emails are read within six seconds of arriving. Yes, Houston, we have a problem. Instead of ...

What is addiction, and how can we stop it? The complexities of addiction have stumped scientists for decades. Today, with 48 million Americans over the age of 12 suffering from a substance use ...

In A Nutshell A new study tracking 8,000+ American pre-teens found that addiction-like screen behaviors at ages 11-12 were ...

The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

For two decades, Elizabeth Ndolo could not help herself when it came to drinking alcohol. She could not do a day without gulping down something frothy.In her house, there was always a stock of booze.

There are lots of ways to make a buck. Among the most repulsive is taking advantage of people at their most vulnerable in exchange for a payoff. A kickback. Some payola. So-called “patient brokers” ...