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New research suggests that patients with chronic pain are more prone than others are to consider suicide. The increased risk remained even when study authors took the possible influence of…

The American Medical Association journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has published a new study by researchers at Cornell University indicating evidence of an environmental trigger…

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a therapy programme to treat depression in women in developing countries.

Although depression is a major health problem world-wide, experts say its…

Bright white light therapy has been used to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) for more than 20 years. Although it remains a mainstay of treatment, in the past few years…

Adolescents addicted to opioids who received continuing treatment with the combination medication buprenorphine-naloxone had lower rates of testing positive or reporting use of opioids compared to youths who…

Researchers know that the number of alcohol outlets in a given geographic area, referred to as alcohol-outlet density (AOD), is associated with a number of adverse health…

Substance abuse disorders (SUDs) and other psychiatric disorders are common among prison populations. A dual diagnosis (DD) refers to a co-existing SUD and any Axis I…

With the days shortening toward winter, many people will begin to experience the winter blahs. For some, the effect can be devastating.

About 6 percent of…

Treatment that combines a certain type of psychotherapy with an antidepressant medication is most likely to help children with anxiety disorders, but each of the treatments alone is…

Helping children face their fears may be more productive than focusing on other techniques to help them manage their anxieties, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the…

Is schizophrenia a disorder of glutamate hyperactivity or hypoactivity? While the predominant hypothesis for many years was that schizophrenia was a glutamate deficit disorder, there is growing evidence…

It sounds counterintuitive, but a Canadian study released this week showed that giving heroin to addicts may help them stop using the drug in the future.

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Researchers at the University of Denver (DU) Morgridge College of Education are conducting a groundbreaking study that will compare two early literacy intervention approaches to educating young children…

Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division…

Another major focus of addiction research is on the development and measurement of effective psychosocial treatment and follow-up studies of the long-term outcomes of different approaches. The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies project…

Studies on the pharmacology of addiction focus on the properties of addictive drugs as they interact with the brain and on potential drug treatments for addiction. Some of this research overlaps with genetic research,…

Genetics research includes not only examination of the patterns of inheritance in families but also direct examination of the genes themselves. Advances in molecular biology have allowed researchers to literally break open a chromosome…

In the past several decades our understanding of addiction and its many aspects has increased at a tremendous rate. We now know that addiction is a complex disorder involving several chemical systems…

A number of other behaviors and kinds of substance use are commonly referred to as addictions. These include excessive time spent on computer games, the Internet, TV sports, and golf, compulsive shopping, and…

Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and compulsive overeating. Estimates of the prevalence of eating disorders vary among groups of people.

They are more common in women than in men and in adolescents…

Anabolic steroids are hormones that promote the development of muscle tissue. Testosterone is an anabolic steroid that is produced naturally by the gonads and adrenal glands and is responsible for masculine traits. Compounds…

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for psychiatric disorders does not list sexual addiction as a specific disorder, but it has been generally recognized as a problem in the psychiatric and addiction literature for many decades.

The prevalence of pathological gambling is between 1 and 3 percent of the population in the United States. Problem gambling represents roughly another 5 percent. These numbers have risen with the widespread legalization of lotteries…

Addiction or Compulsion?
Several behavioral problems that are closely related to drug and alcohol addiction are viewed as addictions themselves. As we continue to formulate a comprehensive definition of what addiction…

People with serious persistent mental illness and addiction often lack the ego strength and coping skills necessary to put a recovery program into action. This necessitates modifications in the treatment…