Food Addiction Explained: Why You Crave and Can’t Stop: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Recent research and brain imaging studies support the concept of food addiction, showing that compulsive overeating ...

It’s not only people addicted to alcohol or drugs who experience significant withdrawal symptoms if they stop using. Antidepressant (AD) withdrawal symptoms are also common, can be severe and ...

Social rank regulates methamphetamine-seeking behavior by modulating the mesocortical and mesolimbic dopamine pathways, and winning experiences can remodel these circuits to suppress drug-seeking. In ...

The Marblehead and Swampscott Health Departments are collaborating on a six-week “Understanding Addiction and Recovery” series that’s free for community members, starting Feb. 3. The meetings will be ...

Everyone deals with their own personal struggles and for some people that manifests in the form of addiction. There are millions of people who deal with alcoholism or drug addiction -- and for others, ...

n A BRAIN DISEASE: Most scientists now consider addiction a brain disease: a condition caused by persistent changes to brain structure and function. Using drugs repeatedly over time changes brain ...