Addiction can be a scary word, and not one to take lightly. It’s never a good feeling when our cravings, desires or impulses are seemingly out of our control, especially when that feeling is laced ...

What started out as a medication for diabetes and weight loss is offering something quite unexpected for many women. Experts ...

Many patients taking obesity and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have found its benefits go beyond weight loss.

Are your cravings for certain foods out of control? Source: Joenomias/Pixabay, used with permission Are you a food addict? Certainly all of us have had the experience, at one time or another, of being ...

A study suggests that GLP-1 drugs, already used to treat diabetes and obesity, could also tamp down cravings for opioids. Reading time 2 minutes Medications used to treat diabetes and obesity may also ...

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mean opioid craving was reduced by 67% in the mindfulness-based intervention. Anxiety was also significantly ...

In the not-so-distant past, many people, including physicians, believed obese people were extremely weak-willed individuals. If they would stick to their diets and exercise more, the belief went, ...

Early data regarding the use of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy to treat addiction is “very, very, exciting,” Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said Thursday ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) can help rewire the brain’s response to natural healthy pleasure, leading to ...