young teenager girl hand using mobile phone or smartphone on gray wall background Determining when smartphone use has become an addiction in patients is tricky. Researchers outline what to look for.

A test that uses a cheek swab to assess whether people have an elevated risk of becoming addicted to opioid medications received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this week.

Addiction screening tools might not just detect addiction they might define it. Researchers from Curtin University argue that the ways we measure addiction can shape who is considered addicted and how ...

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A new Bartholomew County Jail addiction treatment coordinator is spending her first months on the job creating a first-ever drug treatment program for jail inmates. Although Bartholomew County Sheriff ...

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(HealthDay)—A newly developed scale may identify patients addicted to tanning, according to a study published online Feb. 25 in the British Journal of Dermatology. Cecilie Schou Andreassen, Ph.D., ...

BISMARCK-The North Dakota House approved a bill to require people participating in an employment plan under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to go through addiction screening. House ...

This is half of a pair of articles that highlight the evidence for and against the existence of video game addiction. Read the counter-argument here. For decades, psychologists, parents, and gamers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lipi Roy writes about addiction, mental health and entertainment. Mar 10, 2021, 04:13pm EST Mar 10, 2021, 04:13pm EST This ...