Ingesting drugs and alcohol may produce short-term rewards that then result in a lack of control over the behavior. Several behaviors similarly produce short-term rewards and result in a lack of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has endangered global health indirectly through social changes and directly due to the consequences of the infection itself. COVID-19 ...

Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) is increasingly recognised as a behavioural addiction characterized by persistent and excessive purchasing behaviours that result in significant distress, impaired ...

Developers are working with health care providers to add psychiatric hospitals, addiction recovery centers and other behavioral health clinics. Acadia Healthcare and the Lutheran Health Network opened ...

Social media can be harmful. That's something all behavioral researchers can agree on. There is much less consensus on how exactly its harmful use is defined, and whether or not there’s a ...