The nation is still in the grip of an opioid addiction epidemic, but there is some good news. Treatment options are expanding, as professionals learn more about the illness.
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Are you moody? Prone to distraction? Cellphones may act as a high-tech pacifier.
The Pokemon GO craze has tapped in to our desire to seek out rewards. But there different types of rewards in life, each designed to capture our attention, even train our behaviour.
Awareness of social factors, such as society’s perpetuation of masculinity, are critical to understanding the interconnections between trauma, disadvantage and substance abuse in young men.
The FDA just approved a new implant of a drug that treats opioid addiction. Why hasn’t the drug been prescribed more widely already?
College students who take stimulants such as Adderall to get an academic edge might be setting themselves up unknowingly to a vicious cycle of substance abuse and addiction.
What exactly is addiction? What role, if any, does choice play? And if addiction involves choice, how can we call it a “brain disease,” with its implications of involuntariness?
We don’t know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
Many of us are becoming addicted to social media, and it’s having a negative impact on our lives. Here are some tips to help you take back control.
Changing drugs laws can have some very unexpected consequences.
Addicted to the internet? Perhaps not …
We are witnessing widespread abuse of legal, prescribed drugs that, while structurally similar to illicit opioids such as heroin, are used for sound medical practices. So how did we get here?
There are scores of reasons why people get hooked on drugs. But governments play a key role, too.
TV networks and streaming services are encouraging viewers to binge-watch their favorite shows. But findings from a recent study point to a potential public health concern.
Drugs, coffee, television – they can all be described as ‘addictive’. But when do they become a problem?
Be careful: many of us have tried at least two of them.
Engineered to exploit human compulsions, the Internet competes for our attention, while teaching us to need it.
Internet addiction has the same symptoms as any substance abuse disorder. Trying to stop its use can lead to moodiness or even depression.
A sea change in pain treatment helped create the opioid abuse epidemic, and another sea change in how doctors view chronic pain could help curb it.
Dopamine: a powerful substance that is much more than just a pleasure chemical.
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor in Criminology, Loughborough University
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Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Executive Clinical Director, Turning Point & Director of Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), Nutritional neuroscientist, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
