Understanding why treatment fails can change how we think about relapse, recovery and the psychology of addiction.

Athletes in sports where weight and body image come into play, such as figure skating and wrestling, can be particularly vulnerable.

She told Mary that she’d started taking Ozempic for weight loss. “If I have more than two beers now, I go outside and barf,” ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

A Central Iowa woman is using her addiction recovery experiences to help other women by opening a transitional recovery home for women in Des Moines.

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm” — and total dependency: Those are the “serious emotional harms” a family claims affected their daughter, identified only as KGM, in a bombshell lawsuit filed in 2023 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook My Strange Addiction‘s Terry is bringing a whole new meaning to recycling cardboard. In a ...

For years, parents alleged that top social media companies had gotten teens hooked on their products with addictive design features, arguing in legal filings that these choices led to depression, ...

Restaurants are centers for entertainment, nourishment, fun, and celebration. But for many who make them their life's work — chefs, servers, restaurant managers, food photographers, and beyond — food ...

Lizzie Ens grew up Amish until the age of 19. She was shunned by her family after escaping to start a new life Despite the traditionalist community's rejection of vanity, Ens developed an eating ...

One year ago, Karen Morreale was living in someone else’s car while spending nearly $200 a day on drugs. She survived on chips from a nearby gas station and paid someone $5 to use their shower. To ...