A local nonprofit is dedicated to eliminating addiction through various treatment programs, supporting everyone from first responders to children of those struggling with addiction.

There’s no doubt antivirus software left to run in the background when you’re gaming can slow down your PC. However, the ...

Nearly $150 billion in online wagers were placed last year alone. With one in five problem gamblers attempting suicide, ...

Norfolk/Plymouth, would impose new limits on a form of legal gambling that some have said has grown out of control.

A study found that purchasing loot boxes in video games is associated with real-world gambling, video game addiction, and other mental health concerns. The research, published in Computers in Human ...

She has ordered cameras, camera accessories, scrapbooking supplies, metal-detecting equipment, lasers, board games, planners ... author of popular books about addiction. As a result, she says ...

M ethadone is “the best tool we have” to fight opioid addiction, says Ashish Thakrar, a doctor at the University of Pennsylvania’s school of medicine. Yet many of his patients are unable to ...

Asheville, North Carolina — Katy Paige Rosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Asheville, recently realized what too much scrolling on her phone was doing to her. She estimates ...

Addiction has long been a distinctly devastating subject to capture in film. Some of the best movies about addiction are also the most intense and heartbreaking films ever made, with great works ...

Last year, people spent nearly $3 billion betting on March Madness games. Addiction, whether substance use disorder or gambling, is a disease and needs to be treated accordingly, just as we treat ...

Food addiction is not officially included as a recognized diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). However, it generally encompasses ...

Peacock’s new miniseries adaptation, out March 13, takes a similarly clear-eyed view of addiction and its social ... More often, it’s utilized as background scenery rather than as the focal ...