The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

What if everyone is irrational, whether or not they’re addicted to substances? Josh and Ray can’t get enough of talking to Hanna Pickard from Johns Hopkins University, author of What Would You Do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many researchers use the concept of ‘love addiction’ as a shorthand for exploring maladaptive romances.Illustration: Rita Liu/The ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

Sex and love addiction is not an official psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, it is a colloquial (slang or informal) term used to describe a compulsive preoccupation with romantic relationships that ...

Sex addiction is not a real addiction in the way drug and alcohol addictions are. Compulsive sexual behavior is a preoccupation with sexual thoughts, urges, and behaviors that disrupt daily life. To ...

We all joke about our "addiction" to the trappings of modern life (morning lattes, watching Game of Thrones, etc.), but we tell ourselves they aren't really addictions. We insist to our best friend ...

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular when a person cannot stop these behaviors despite experiencing negative ...