Rutgers‑led study of 2.2 million people finds addiction risk is driven more by genes tied to impulse control and reward processing than by any drug.

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Scientists have long known that stress and addiction travel together, but the biological connection between a hard day and a ...

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

The ADHD brain is different, not faulty. The ADHD system can set a person up for addiction. Dopamine levels are the key to ...

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Why are short videos so addictive? New research links attachment anxiety and alexithymia to Short Video Addiction (SVA).

Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those around them. People have long debated whether addiction is a habit or a ...

We deal with a lot of inherently traumatic things in medicine every day. We see people die or get terrible injuries. We see people who have lost control of their lives. We convince ourselves that it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genes tied to impulse control, reward processing and risk‑taking play a larger role in addiction risk than genes linked to any ...