When that habit is eventually stopped via drug help and support, a difficult and often unsettling question emerges: who am I ...

Grace Recovery Ballito relaunches its community rehab programme, helping addicts and families with real‑world recovery tools, ...

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

What comes to mind when you read the word "addiction?" Does it make you think of repetitive use of alcohol and drugs despite negative consequences? Or do you think of shopping, sexual activity, video ...

Caitlin Moran's personal essay "I Know Why the Fat Lady Sings," calls compulsive overeating "the most pointlessly secret of miseries" for women. Her words continue to make the Facebook, Twitter, and ...

With near-universal internet and smartphone access among young Indians, “access is no longer” the binding constraint, the ...

“Compulsive scrolling and social comparison are particularly linked to anxiety and depressive symptoms,” the Survey says, ...