New AUT research shows one in four gamblers who recover from harmful gambling slip back and return to the habit at a risky level.

Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of background, education, or income. It often starts subtly—using alcohol to unw ...

Huml Health, a Bentonville-based health care technology startup, will soon offer technology to help people recover from drug ...

Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows 40 to 60% of people suffering from drug addiction relapse within the first year. This statistic shows how hard it is to stay sober. But do you ...

Whenever a celebrity is arrested, overdoses, or dies from drugs or alcohol, there is usually renewed media interest in addiction. Most of the time, this means that experts on substance use disorders ...

Smokers who quit with the help of e-cigarettes often continue vaping, but it is not known whether this promotes or prevents ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...

Instead of criminalising those trapped in drug addiction, the focus must shift to treatment, counselling and rehabilitation, says Dr Venkata Lakshminarasimha, Assistant Professor at the De-addiction ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.