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The Jodi Hildebrandt Story" reveals the dark side of the "sex/porn addiction" industry and its mainstream narratives.

New York’s bookie-in-chief Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing an expansion of addiction treatment programs to help compulsive gamblers hooked on state-sanctioned betting — provoking cries ...

Physical exercise is one of the main recommendations for maintaining good health. However, when practiced compulsively and ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Individuals with chronic opioid use, whether addicted or not, show heightened learning from negative reinforcement, suggesting that avoidance behavior may underlie both the development and persistence ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

An entire gambling ecosystem operates with virtually no federal guardrails, and a generation is growing up with casinos on ...

When people learn that surrounding visuals and sounds may signify specific choice outcomes, these cues can become guides for decision making. For people with compulsive disorders, addictions, or ...

Arriving at a 1987 Gamblers Anonymous event in Dallas, Chris Anderson was at a low point. After years of losing money on high-risk stock option trades, his mental health had deteriorated and he had ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Most accounts of disordered eating and food addiction focus on hedonic, calorie-dense intake. However, many patients describe an ...

Wyoming has joined a national self-exclusion program, letting problem gamblers ban themselves from betting. Experts say it can help, but warn it’s only one tool to address surging addictions. (Matt ...