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Sen. Rob Portman,R-Ohio, addresses the media outside the art middle before a funeral service for...
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid thats 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin,and is causing a...
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Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.New England’s heroin epidemic may currently...
Governor Christie gave a heartfelt speech on addiction at a New Hampshire town corridor event.//...
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.The recent Hampshire primaries has drawn...
On September 29,writerBill Clegg came on the expose to talk about his first fiction novel, "Did...
Addiction and other self-destructive behavior can catch many forms. Millions of people worldwide are...
For more than two decades Dr. David Kessler, pediatrician, FDA commissioner under presidents George...
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. As part of our ongoing coverage...
Drugs: they’re everywhere. In our medicine cabinets,the books we read, the movies we watch, or the...
Kassandra Frederique,New York State director at the Drug Policy Alliance, argues that New York...
Screen time is a daily battle. Between kids and parents,between ourselves and our better judgment....
In previous blogs,I own examined lots of weird types of addictive and compulsive behaviours...
For this week's Please Explain,we explore how science is giving us a better understanding of...
Every year,heroin takes the lives of nearly 30000 Americans. According to recent CDC data,...
Governor Christie gave a heartfelt speech on addiction at a New Hampshire town corridor event.//...
Does including a devout message in a public service announcement warning of the dangers of alcohol...
Guest host Arun Venugopal,host of WNYC's Micropolis, is filling in today for...
Recovery is never an easy process. However,the current pandemic has made it even more challenging....
Battling addiction in Orthodox Jewish community means breaking through silenceTalking approximately...
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. In Oklahoma,an alternative to...
Back in 2002, I had a little piece published on excessive collecting behaviour in the Guardian...
“Sixty-four million people do it at least once a week. Nabokov wrote approximately it. Bill...
Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth® at the University of Texas at Dallas investigated the...
The smell of alcohol may fabricate (to make up, invent) it harder for people to control their...
Worldwide,fitness buffs are turning to CrossFit, a specific type of group exercise, and to initiate...
“We own an infatuation for famous. It’s gone global. It seems that,with the rise of fame...
In today’s contemporary society,students face multiple academic pressures. The best colleges and...
Three of our favorite segments from the week,in case you missed them.Brandon Stanton of Humans of...
Over the last decade,I have published various papers on excessive mobile phone spend both in general...
“Bargain hunting may save money,but for some people, looking for the next ‘noteworthy deal’...
Most of you reading this will maintain probably heard of ‘binge drinking’ and ‘binge...
interrogate the average person how to treat alcoholism,and they’ll probably picture an AA meeting...
With heroin use up nearly 80% since 2007,the nation's "Drug Czar," Gil Kerlikowske, and is...
En ce moment,les États-Unis ont les yeux rivés sur la loterie «astronomical Game Mega Millions»....
Writer Susan Stellin and photographer Graham MacIndoe detail how they overcame addiction and made...
Following my recent blogs where I outlined some of the papers that my colleagues and I occupy...
Following my recent blogs where I outlined some of the papers that I and my colleagues have...
nowadays’s blog is the moment part of a two-part article (the first of which can be found here)....
Research has consistently shown that a small but meaningful minority of adolescents fill a gambling...
Until the early 2000s,there appeared to be a commonly held insight that consumers viewed the...
Over the past decade,the psychology of gambling marketing has become big trade. Despite the strict...
It’s a widely accepted fact that excessive drinking of alcohol is bad for one’s health. But what...
Now that people are beginning to accept the notion that addictions attain not necessarily involve...
In a multicenter,randomized clinical trial, ex-prisoners who received six monthly injections of...
Following on from my preceding blog,here are some of my more recent papers with Dr. Edo Shonin and...
A study out today provides new insight into how the brains of drug addicts may be wired differently....
Although shopping is a necessity in contemporary life,it is also a leisure activity and a form of...
By now,you might fill discovered that taming your sweet tooth as a New Year’s resolution is harder...
Individuals addicted to cocaine may possess difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a...
Generally speaking,Internet addiction (IA) has been characterized by excessive or poorly controlled...
Over the final few years there has been a worthy deal of speculation over the role of advertising as...
In the summer of 2014 I was commissioned to review problem gambling in Great Britain (the tumble out...
final Thursday (January 29), I was watching the newspaper review on Sky News when one of the...
Over the last decade,the United Kingdom has undergone major changes of gambling legislation (most...
In previous blogs I have looked at anorexia nervosa in the context of addictive eating...
A couple of days ago, I took share in a live debate on national radio (BBC 5Live) about whether...
As regular readers of my blog will know,my overriding passion in life is music, and as a music lover...
In a preceding blog I briefly examined how gaming venue design affects gambling...
The research lab at the Center for BrainHealth® led by Dr. Francesca M. Filbey,the Bert Moore Chair...
Recent research from the middle for BrainHealth® at The University of Texas at Dallas shows that...
nowadays’s blog has absolutely nothing to do with one of my preceding blogs on being “addicted...
Pathological gamblers acquire a stronger brain reaction to so-called near-miss events: losing events...
The results of the ground-breaking SALOME research,published in the Journal of the American Medical...
Chronic homelessness can seem like an intractable problem in America,but there's a new...
Being bullied can wound young children in many ways,but a modern UT Dallas study found that it does...
Images of disease and suffering should move smokers to kick the habit – at least,that’s the...
Over the last year I’ve been receiving a lot of emails (well, approximately nine or ten to be...
Despite several safe drug therapies available to support smokers quit, three-quarters report...
In previous blogs I possess examined (a) whether in some individuals excessive cycling can be...
Adding flashing lights and music to gambling encourages risky decision-making — even whether...
While non-whites,younger people and people in other countries are seeing falling death rates, a...
Over the last 15 years,research into various online addictions has greatly increased. Alongside...
Patrick J. Kennedy,the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his...
Over the final decade,my research unit has carried out an increasing amount of research into the...
In the three decades that I contain been studying gambling,the question that I am most asked is...
A nine-year old boy walks into a shop and buys a packet of potato chips. An eight-year old girl...
In my last blog,I briefly looked at the advantages of online therapy. However, the growth of online...
On Twitter final week,Adrian Parkinson of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling (and the associated end...
When we are looking for factors that change behaviour we can examine inside the individual for...
With the football World Cup kicking off later today,I thought I would utilize my blog to give my...
Over the final two decades I enjoy written a lot of research papers about the structural...
“The speed world record for a single attempt [of solving the Rubik’s dice] is 5.55 seconds,set...
In a preceding blog,I examined the psychology of collecting and whether collecting can (in extreme...
Yesterday,BBC Online News published a report approximately online bingo (and which I provided some...
I’m sure that most of you are aware that nearly all casinos around the world carry out not contain...
There are certainly different types of drunks. “Sober Dave is boring,you should hang out with...
People with drug addictions who started opioid abuse later in life spend injections for their...
People who attended Gamblers Anonymous gambled less often,showed increased readiness for change and...
Researchers own thus far been unable to define how dopamine influences cocaine reward. A recent...
Adults who expend marijuana are five times more likely to develop an alcohol expend disorder (AUD)...
Research into online addictions has grown considerably over the final two decades and much of it...
Electronic cigarettes are widely promoted and used to benefit smokers quit traditional cigarettes,...
Periods of economic uncertainty tend to influence drinking problems among people who lose their...
I was idly looking through some of the academic papers I occupy published over the last 25 years and...
At present,exercise addiction is not officially recognised in any medical or psychological...
Over the final 15 years,research into various online addictions have greatly increased. Prior to the...
Alprazolam,the prescription sedative more commonly known by its brand name, Xanax, and is being...
Technology is fundamental to most people’s working lives. The potential for fixed availability via...
Over the last few days I appeared in a lot of news reports (including one by the BBC) in relation to...
Responsible gambling practices gain now become the norm within the gaming industry. One of the first...
Cigarette smoking among adults (i.e., those aged 18 years and over) has been a highly prevalent...
Exhibitionism typically refers to an intense desire or compulsion to expose sexual parts of the body...
Over the last few years there has been increasing expend of the term ‘digital detox’. According...
Impulsiveness,crime and problems with social interaction. Many substance abusers also struggle with...
All of us have rank habits, and all of us from time to time feel guilty approximately these habits....
In the ongoing fight against drug addiction,researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s...
Mailing free nicotine patches to smokers,without any behavioral support, does aid some of them quit,...
“There is a well known cliché that you should never meet your heroes but if David Bowie or Paul...
Many people that I know would probably describe me as a ‘writaholic’ based on the number of...
(Please note that the following article was co-written using material provided by my research...
In a preceding blog, I briefly looked at ‘quilting addiction’. It was while I was researching...
Last week I was invited to give a keynote talk at an Italian conference on community psychology in...
Over the weekend I went to the cinema with my oldest son to watch crazy Max: Fury Road. The reason...
From everything that I’ve observed over the final decade in the gambling world,the one thing that...
final week I did an interview with the Daily Mail about how to lop down alcohol intake. The hook of...
Please note that the following article is a slightly extended version of an article that was first...
Back in November 2000, I appeared in many tabloid newspapers around the world in a story about...
While prevention efforts targeting addictive disorders are widely used,there are relatively limited...
In previous blogs I have covered some arguably frivolous (and alleged) addictions including...
To date,competitive gaming has not been widely researched or recognized in the scientific and...
Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) describes a condition characterised by a misconstrued body image in...
Regular readers of my blog will know that I have written a few blogs on the psychology of collecting...
Over the last decade, I bear been asked by the mass media on countless occasions approximately the...
Obesity has become a major problem across the Western world including remarkable Britain. Some...
I apologise in advance,but nowadays’s blog contains a not-so thinly disguised plug (well, a...
In a preceding blog, I examined a case of so-called ‘hair dryer dependence’. The source fabric...
Author Taylor Hunt is teaching people struggling with addiction a unusual tool for recovery:...
To me,shoes (and the psychology of them) contain always been a trivial topic. However, maybe I just...
Mindfulness may sound like an intimidating topic to some,but the concept is actually fairly easy to...
With obesity rates on the rise worldwide and excess sugar consumption considered a direct...
Developmental psychologist Maria Pagano,PhD, found adolescents with severe alcohol and other drug...
There is a strong organization between problem gambling,suicide ideation, and excessive alcohol...
Using someone else’s medication is the most common form of prescription stimulant misuse among...
Is cellphone exercise detrimental to mental health? A new study from the University of Illinois...
Researchers occupy discovered one reason why adolescents are more prone to drug addiction than...
A recent study showed that medical provider training,original clinic policies and efforts to...
In 2014,I was the resident psychologist on 12-episode television series called Forbidden made for...
In previous blogs I contain examined various (admittedly extreme) aspects of dancing including...
I have examined problematic and/or addictive video gaming in a number of my preceding blogs. Despite...
In a previous blog I outlined many physical syndromes that had been reported in the 1980s medical...
One of things I am very proud of in my academic career is the coining of the term ‘technological...
Throughout my career,I bear constantly pointed out that I met very few people that are genuinely...
In a preceding blog on five ‘weird addictions’ I briefly mentioned pagophagia,a craving and...
Back in 1996,I published a paper on behavioural addictions in the Journal of Workplace Learning. One...
Regular readers of my blog will know that (a) some of my friends describe me as a “music...
In recent years,the problematic use of online videogames has received increased attention not only...
Earlier this month,ex-England footballer Kenny Sansom made the news after he was found homeless...
Today’s blog is based on an article I was commissioned to write for The Independent and which was...
Back in 1991,not long after I had been awarded my PhD, I was asked (by my then girlfriend) to attend...
Over the final decade,social responsibility in gambling has become one of the major issues for...
Back in June 1997, I appeared as the compulsory “addiction expert” on the BBC television...
Text based recovery options might be a solid supplemental option for addiction recovery....
satisfied Saturday,sweet readers! This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers mindfulness vs....
Following my recent blogs where I outlined some of the papers that my colleagues and I fill...
Psychologists are beginning to examine sexual addiction among Christian clergy members. A unusual...
Nearly 10 per cent of teens in three Canadian provinces said they had gambled online in the past...
Since David Bowie’s death earlier this year, I’ve already written two articles on the psychology...
In the study cocaine users performed a gambling task while measurements were being taken of their...
(Please note: This blog is a slightly extended and fully referenced version of an article that was...
Brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys provide evidence that the brains of compulsive video...
Please note: A version of the following article was first published on addiction.com and was...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog on why problem gambling should be considered a health issue....
The Campaign for Fairer Gambling (CFFG) yesterday responded to my article in which I outlined the...
Most regular gamblers will be well aware that technology is revolutionizing the way they can gamble...
Whenever I hand a prescription for pain pills to a patient,I order them, “Remember not to drink...
It’s been only two weeks since David Bowie’s untimely death and the Bowie obsessive in me is...
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that a lipid (bulky molecule) in...
(N.B. A shorter version of this article was first published in Hopes & Fears magazine)....
Addiction is a highly prevalent problem within today’s society and there is a lot of time and many...
Please note: A version of this blog first appeared on addiction.com Conceptualizing addiction has...
Earlier nowadays I appeared live on my local radio station (BBC Radio Nottingham) commenting on a...
Research appears to indicate that at times of psychological and/or emotional hardship,some habitual...
According to (the perhaps appropriately named Dr. Matt Pain and his colleague Matthew Pain in a 2005...
acquire you seen slot machines featuring Spiderman? Or the ones based on the Monopoly board game? Or...
Most of the changes outlined in my preceding blog were things that I predicted would happen in...
The following article is a much extended version of an article that was originally published by The...
Online gambling regulation is a hot topic and many online gaming operators are wondering what the...
All forms of gambling lie on a luck–skill dimension. Neither games of pure skill nor games of pure...
One of the recurring questions I am often asked to comment on by the media is whether celebrities...
Back in the early 2000s,I (and one of my colleagues, Dr. Michael Larkin) carried out some research...
The brain tissue of persons with alcohol dependence shows a variety of changes compared to...
Heavy users of cannabis who experience withdrawal symptoms such as nervousness and cravings when...
Video gaming has evolved from a single-player platform to a multi-player realm where interaction...
Online gambling regulation is a hot topic and many online gambling operators are wondering what the...
Please note: A shorter and slightly different version of this blog first appeared on addiction.com...
Arguably the most noticeable change in the British gambling landscape since the 2005 Gambling Act...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), developed by Marsha Linehan in the late 1980’s is a specific...
Please note: The following article is an extended version of an article that was recently published...
Some people frequently check and re-check their mobile phones. Once this impulse is triggered, it...
(Please note: This article is a slightly expanded and original version of an article that was first...
I recently published a potentially controversial paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry...
In the latest issue of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, there are two papers that I co-authored...