The American Pediatric Association recommends teens not play video games for more than two hours per day, but who is keeping track? While substance abuse might be a bit easier to spot than addiction ...

Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...

Mental illness and addiction can often go hand in hand. About half of people with substance use disorder also have depression, anxiety, or another type of mental illness. And half of people with a ...

The terms “addiction” and “dependence” can seem similar, but they are different. Dependence occurs when the body physically relies on a drug. Addiction involves changes in behavior. A person with an ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recently proposed a new addition to the addiction vernacular: “preaddiction.” The idea is that the word will ...

More people in the U.S. are overdosing from cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription stimulants and there's no approved medication to help them get off the drugs. Amid public health warnings about ...