The other sees medication as the adjunct, a way to reduce craving and the agony of withdrawal while allowing people to do the psychological work essential to addiction recovery. Both camps agree ...

Learn how productivity addiction harms mental health and creativity, and discover ways to foster a healthier relationship ...

Thinking about grievances and revenge can be so consuming that it feels like an addiction, explains James Kimmel, Jr., J.D., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. With drug addiction, you can’t resist the urge to use them. If you’re worried that you or a loved one may have an addiction ...

Two local addiction recovery experts, Dr. James Hellewell at Intermountain Health and Bryce Herrera, a licensed clinical social worker who treats patients at Huntsman Mental Health Institute, spoke ...

While this narrative sounds attractive, it largely misrepresents how feel-good neurotransmitters, addiction, and recovery work. Understanding why the “dopamine detox” is more myth than ...

“We wanted to create a tool that was immediately useful in the clinic and lab, that reflects current understandings about how digital addiction works, that wouldn’t go obsolete once the next ...

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