and a clear understanding of how addiction works and, especially, how it robs substance users of the ability to control their use even when they want to do so. Social drinking can easily slide ...

While CBT, positive psychology, motivational interviewing, and 12-step models help many, contingency management rewards healthy choices and remains underused.

Samaritan Works celebrated the grand opening of its latest Graduate House on Thursday, May 22, a facility offering expanded ...

He, in his mind, would love treatment. But that’s how addiction works. His mind is sick. It’s hard for him to make that decision. Detoxing, I don’t know if you’re familiar with detoxing.

That part of the brain is called the mesocorticolimbic circuit. And this is how the addiction works: When nicotine triggers dopamine release in the reward system, it induces a rewarding feeling ...

Thanks to the OneOhio Recovery Foundation and the hard work and commitment of leaders in our area, western Ohio has a new ...

decision-making and impulse control — those brain regions showed substantial disruption in their ability to work together, compared to those in peers without internet addiction. The authors ...