Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behavior like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It's a question that highlights a fundamental disconnect: the gap ...

More than a third of Americans report making New Year’s resolutions, statistics show, many of which are focused on kicking bad habits. Whether it’s smoking, overeating, drinking excessive alcohol or ...

When you think about addiction, your mind probably jumps to the usual suspects: alcohol, drugs, gambling, or cigarettes. But the human brain’s capacity for developing compulsive behaviors extends far ...

Addiction psychotherapy—treating problematic substance use and addictions in individual therapy—is quite effective and can be deeply rewarding. In my experience, people enjoy the individualized nature ...

Correction appended, March 26, 2014. After weeks spent offering up increasingly desperate excuses for the glitchy rollout of Obamacare’s insurance exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary ...

Generative AI can surprisingly steer people toward an addiction of any kind, either by insidious deceit or via accidental triggering. In today’s column, I examine an important question about the ...