Khaled El-Ghamry consults medical professionals on the reasons behind irritability or agitation during Ramadan ...

I don’t drink anymore. I don’t smoke anymore.” He might have shrugged it off, but reports accumulated in his clinic and ...

The effect was seen across a wide variety of addictive and habit-forming substances, including cocaine, opioids, alcohol, ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

The blockbuster GLP-1 drugs that have reshaped the treatment of diabetes and obesity may help prevent multiple substance use ...

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Evidence is mounting that the wildly popular weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1s may also hold potential for treating addiction, and the field may be on the verge of obtaining desperately needed ...

Poems and songs say love should be world-shattering. The logic of love addiction suggests that it shouldn’t. Credit...Illustrations by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sophie Haigney Recently an ...

The head of Instagram downplayed the devastating consequences social media can have on youngsters — telling a jury that his app isn’t an addictive digital drug, but more like a Netflix binge. Adam ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri denied that social media is “clinically addictive.” A 20-year-old woman identified as Kaley filed a lawsuit against Instagram and YouTube’s parent company, Meta. Kaley ...

Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them. Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified ...

Is social media addictive to young people? A jury in California is being asked to decide — even though the question still divides researchers. The jury will grapple with two main questions, says Eric ...