Healing the addicted brain
Addiction significantly alters the brain’s structure and function, affecting regions involved in reward, stress, and self-control. Understanding these changes can illuminate why willpower alone is
Shopping addiction
When you have money, do you feel you must spend it all? Do you shop in order to relieve stress or anxiety? When you enter a store,
Technology and internet addiction
Do you turn on your computer first thing in the morning? Do you prefer online relationships to those in real life? Does your job or school
Sex Addiction Versus Love Addiction: What’s the Difference?
Do you find yourself in one difficult relationship after another? Do you need to be in love in order to feel truly alive? Have you
Drug addiction
Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by pursuing drugs in a compulsive manner. Over time, drugs create a permanent change in the user’s brain that
Food addiction
Do you eat excessively? Do you find yourself constantly giving in to your food cravings, even if you know it’s unhealthy? Does losing weight seem
Prescription drug abuse
It’s safe because doctors prescribe it, right? Wrong. Many people mistakenly believe that misusing prescription drugs is relatively harmless, since, unlike street drugs such as
Gambling addiction
Did you know that gambling can be an official addiction, just like alcohol and drugs? A couple decades ago, the notion that someone could be
Alcohol addiction
Alcohol, like other drugs, is a psychoactive substance that affects the nervous system in the brain. Alcohol causes changes in consciousness, emotions, and behavior, and negatively
Addiction feels like a dark, bottomless pit that no one else can possibly understand — that no one can help you out of. Sometimes, you’re not even sure you want to get out. You’ve been this way for so long, you’ve given up hope that things can be different.
Young and old. Rich and poor. Professionals and laypeople. Addiction does not discriminate. It can affect anyone at any time.
You can be addicted to almost anything: alcohol, drugs, gambling, internet, pornography, sex, love, relationships, codependency, shopping, food…
What is Addiction? Are you an addict?
Not sure if you are addicted? Take one of our quizzes to see for yourself.
Alcohol Addiction
Drug Problem or Drug Addiction
Gambling Addiction
Sex Addiction
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