Addiction
Cannabis almost as addictive as opioids among teens, study finds
Teenagers' addiction rates for cannabis are about the same as for prescription opioids, according to a new study of drugs and youth.
Mar 30, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Too much social media can be harmful, but it's not addictive like drugs
If you spend hours of the day on your phone checking social media, you're not unusual. The average internet user spends two hours a day on various social media sites. But does your habit of checking Facebook, Instagram, Twitter ...
Mar 24, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Sex addiction' isn't an addiction – it reflects a person's own moral misgivings about sex, research shows
A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas in the greater Atlanta area on March 16 and shot dead eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The following day, Cherokee County sheriff's officials ...
Mar 22, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Achievement and escapism can lead to online video game addiction
As online video games increase in popularity—particularly with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing people to stay home—some players are becoming addicted as they seek feelings of achievement and escape, according to new research ...
Mar 18, 2021
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Changes in the eye may offer early warning for Alzheimer's disease
Some say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but new findings from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute suggest they may offer insight into the mind as well. Their new proof-of-principle study shows how ...
Mar 17, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Almost 40% of university students surveyed are addicted to their phones
A team of researchers at King's College London has found that nearly 40% of students surveyed exhibited symptoms of addiction to their smartphone. In their paper published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the researchers describe ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Work addiction can be harmful to mental health
As a culture, we've come to value growth and productivity, making paid work not only a necessity, but a central concern in peoples' lives. Yet this attitude towards work is harming us more than it's helping, with research ...
Feb 8, 2021
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Addiction
New study examines addiction medicine treatment in Vietnam
An assessment published this week in the journal The Lancet HIV provides new insight about an initiative to integrate treatment of opioid use disorder along with HIV in Vietnam.
Feb 4, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Highly specific synaptic plasticity in addiction
Addiction, or substance use disorder (SUD), is a complex neurological condition that includes drug-seeking behavior among other cognitive, emotional and behavioral features. Synaptic plasticity, or changes in the way neurons ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Addiction
Medical terms for opioid addiction don't always reduce stigma, study finds
Opioid addiction is persistently stigmatized, delaying and preventing treatment for many—an urgent problem with overdose deaths continuing to rise. To help alleviate this, various medical ways of describing opioid-related ...
Jan 21, 2021
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