Stress hormones, not impaired insulin signaling, may underlie obesity-related diabetes, according to Rutgers research.

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...

Uncovering cycles of moral panic: Drug crises often trigger waves of moral panic, leading to punitive measures. Historians show how these cycles—like those seen with the crack epidemic and the War on ...

Lawrence: Addiction is a public health problem, and the regulation of addictive products and services is a major public ...

Forget Nirvana’s Nevermind – it was Jane’s Addiction’s game-changing second album Ritual De Lo Habitual that ushered in the alternative rock decade ...

Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...

With the increased legalization of recreational cannabis, as many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug ...

Cannabis use causes cellular damage that increases the risk of highly cancerous tumors, according to a new paper published in ...

Significance Nicotine-containing products, labelled as being ‘tobacco-free’ nicotine (TFN), are marketed to consumers as ...

Objective: Smartphone addiction is on the rise globally ... The experiment has received ethical approval from the Ethics Review Committee for Sports Science Experiments at Beijing Sport University, ...

She said she was unaware the drink contained kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia that can produce feelings of energy, ease anxiety and reduce pain— but carries a risk of addiction ...

These and other indicators demonstrate how porn can become not only problematic, but also habit forming - though calling it an "addiction" is "an area of substantial, protracted controversy and ...