The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction ...

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 ...

You look forward to getting high ... for example—and that all facets of addiction reflect physical changes in brain circuitry, and those changes are reversible after substance use stops.

Look for groups specifically focused on overcoming ... some of the current science on what consuming porn can do to the brain ...

Book Excerpt from Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs In Chapter 12, "The Opium Fields," author Marc Lewis recounts one night spent in the brain ...

Thanks to this trial, I am now hopeful that we can help patients and their families – who have often struggled for years – by targeting the parts of the brain linked to addiction." ...