The interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely suited to help people understand and recover from addiction.

My wife worries that withholding such a significant fact becomes an ongoing deception that could undermine trust.

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has ...

Ian Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Wendy Wood is professor emerita of psychology and business at the University of Southern California.

People in addiction recovery can be liable to disown their addiction, which makes sense, but it also leaves them from ...

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Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

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 ...

It’s lunchtime in the 1960s, and you’re out with co-workers enjoying not one, not two, but three cocktails with your meal.

The former Busted star has credited Jack Osbourne with helping him get sober during his alcoholism struggle after he was attacked whilst drunk in New Zealand ...

MACON, Ga. — Rupert May remembers the morning he reached for his pain pills and found the bottle empty. It was a moment that foreshadowed a darker journey ahead — one that would consume more than a ...