We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits—and how new discoveries can help us kick the habit. Addiction hijacks the brain’s neural pathways. Scientists are ...

It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain. It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it does rightly suggest that there is an involuntary takeover of the ...

Drug addiction manifests as a compulsive drive to take a drug despite serious adverse consequences. This aberrant behaviour has traditionally been viewed as bad 'choices' that are made voluntarily ...

A recent research that studied the brain scan of some obese people reported that obese people might get addicted to food in the similar fashion as a drug addict to drugs. A recent research that ...

Researchers believe that alcohol can alter the brain's chemistry and allow people to more easily become addicted to harder substances Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

A WOMAN who blamed her symptoms on caffeine withdrawal has now been given 15 years left to live after being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. Abi Feltham, 37, was drinking about 12 coffees a ...