Top Research Papers on Addiction

Abstract Background All addictions have a recurring nature, but their comparative chronicity has never been directly investigated. The purpose of this study is to undertake this investigation. Method A secondary analysis was conducted on two large scale 5-year Canadian adult cohort studies. A subset of 1,088 individuals were assessed as having either substance use disorder, gambling disorder, excessive behaviors (e.g. shopping, sex/pornography), or two or more of these designations (‘multiple addictions’) during the course of these studies. Within each dataset comparisons were made between the...

Taking into consideration the gradually widespread use of the internet, children are thought to be an important group both in terms of the time they spend on the internet and the dangers they will be exposed to in the virtual world. Internet addiction is essentially a type of behavioral addiction, characterized by a certain behavioral pattern, which is confronted with both physical, psychological, and social consequences. The research aims to establish a correlation between children's addiction to computer games with the cyber violence that they may be exposed to base on this addiction. For th...

The study results show that adolescents with higher levels of addiction to smartphones and social media may have greater interpersonal interaction with friends in real life, but adolescents with high levels of addicted to online games may have less interpersonal interactions with friends with real life.

The study results show that many factors cause a common thread between cigarette addicts and drug addicts, starting with the desire to try, pressure from peer groups or peer groups, being trapped and eventually falling into drug abuse.

Addictions are seen with non - psychoactive substances also. Behavioral addictions is a broad terminology used related to this. The essential feature of behavioral addictions is the failure to resist an impulse, drive or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the person or to others. There are many individual (personal vulnerability) factors that may be involved in the acquisition, development and maintenance of behavioral addictions. Concepts of Internet addiction, Gaming addiction, Facebook addiction, PubG addiction are already in use and seen in clinical practice. There are people ...

An analysis of some of the most recent literature on digital addiction offers a conceptual basis for understanding digital addiction as one of the major reasons why people, and adolescents in particular, sleep less and less well in the digital age.

Methamphetamine is the second most widely abused drug worldwide and, brain damage and mental problems due to methamphetamine abuse are briefly mentioned in this text.

We study competition for consumer attention in which platforms can sacrifice service quality for attention. A platform can choose the “addictiveness” of its service. A more addictive platform yields consumers a lower utility of participation but a higher marginal utility of allocating attention. We provide conditions under which increased competition can harm consumers by encouraging platforms to offer low-quality services. In particular, if attention is scarce, increased competition reduces the quality of services because business-stealing incentives induce platforms to increase addictiveness...

WIC-eligible women with unintended pregnancies and fewer social supports tend to participate in WIC, but those who experience more structural barriers are less likely to participate, while A/PI women may face specific challenges to WIC participation.

This critical review will focus on the efforts to apply translational models of addiction phenomenology in human clinical samples, including their relative strengths and weaknesses.

The aim of this commentary is to increase awareness regarding the existence of this group (addiction researchers with addiction) and to explore the possibility that their expertise may help advance addiction science while helping to reduce stigma.

The Addiction Nursing Competencies were created using existing nursing education frameworks and addiction nurse care manager clinical guidelines to guide and support the nursing workforce.

Extensive research has shown various family factors such as low family cohesion, and limited parental supervision to be associated with adolescent Internet addiction (IA). There has been little discussion about the relationship between parental IA and adolescent IA. The purpose of this study was to determine whether parental IA and parental monitoring of digital technology use interpret IA in their adolescents. The current study was carried out with 168 parents of adolescents, predominantly female parents. They reported demographics and how often they monitored their adolescent’s Internet usag...

It has been reported that food addiction may impede weight loss and increase the likelihood of regaining weight when associated with personality traits such as neuroticism and impulsiveness, which are also related to mood disorders, anxiety, and addictive behaviors.

Psychosocial development of preschool children is the process of children’s abilities developing and children starting to take the initiative to solve their own problems according to their knowledge. However, many preschool children are currently addicted to gadgets such as smartphones, which can interfere with their taking initiative and paying attention to the social environment. The aim of this study was to determine the differences in psychosocial development between children who are addicted vs. those who are not addicted to smartphones in preschool age children. This study was a descript...

The time is definitely right for an issue of this journal devoted to multiple addictions and addiction interactions, an issue that includes not only clinical research, but also detailed neurochemical explanations of how addictions affect the brain.

Stress is closely associated with smartphone addiction. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of studies investigating the potential variation in the effect of stress on smartphone addiction based on the specific addiction type and gender. We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey among 596 high school students. The results revealed that the effect size of stress on smartphone addiction varied across different types of addiction. The strongest relationship was observed between stress and social media addiction, followed by the relationship between stress and information acquisition addicti...

The high prevalence of mobile phone addiction among adolescents of low-income urban areas of Delhi is an indication of the potential public health concern posed by mobile phone use among adolescents in urban settings and it is essential to limit the access to mobile phones for important utility purposes for adolescents.

The 'addiction transfer' or 'cross addiction' hypothesis was not supportive for alcohol addiction, gambling addiction or other behaviours that may be addictive, as well as other substance-use disorders.

Broadly, the existing literature suggests biological and behavioral parallels between food addiction and substance addictions, with ultraprocessed foods high in both added fat and refined carbohydrates being most implicated in addictive-like eating.

The cases presented here demonstrate the use of buprenorphine opioid agonist therapy (OAT) for pregnant women with opioid use disorder (OUD), which is now recognized as a safe and effective first-line treatment.

Tan et al. (7) show that drugs of abuse interfere with signaling in the nucleus accumbens and disrupt natural responses of mice to food and water, providing a new mechanistic understanding of the links between addiction and motivational reprioritization.

Internet addiction and smartphone addiction were associated with poor sleep quality in adolescents and older adolescents (≥16 years), gender (female), poor health perception, and perception of moderate economic status of the family were other factors associated withpoor sleep quality.

An important philosophical issue in the study of addiction is what difference the fact that a person is addicted makes to attributions of autonomy (and responsibility) to their drug-oriented behavior. In spite of accumulating evidence suggesting the role of emotional dysregulation in understanding addiction, it has received surprisingly little attention in the debate about this issue. I claim that, as a result, an important aspect of the autonomy impairment of many addicted individuals has been largely overlooked. A widely shared assumption in the philosophical literature is that for addiction...

INTRODUCTION Brain-based explanations of addiction have become a prominent explanatory model in recent decades. Although opposing views have been published, there is no large-scale study of researchers' opinions, unlike for treatment staff, the public and affected individuals. Therefore, this study aimed to examine international addiction researchers' perspectives on: (i) brain-based explanations of addiction; (ii) the perceived dominance of the concept in science, society, treatment and among those affected; and (iii) researchers' general conception of addiction in terms of ontologies and cau...

An alternative approach to understanding patients with addictive behaviors using a comparison of sex is discussed, which can help reduce stigma, misunderstanding, countertransference feeling, and the judgment of patients, thereby leading to better patient care.

The history of the distinct but overlapping practices of addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry are explored and a shared vision for the future of addiction specialty care is offered.

It is essential that understanding of the role of methionine in the tumor microenvironment is enhanced to be a therapeutic strategy for glioblastoma patients.

It is recommended that problematic technology use is to be studied in its sociocultural context with an increased focus on its compensatory functions, motivations, and gratifications and moving away from the addiction framework when studying technological behaviors and using other terms such as “problematic use” to describe them.

With the revolution in technology, the internet offers opportunity to be a “web wizard,” but its overuse could be problematic. Problematic internet use, also called internet addiction disorder (IAD), is typically self-diagnosed and has been linked to other comorbidities, such as gambling, alcoholism, and mood disorders. Psychiatrists have not reached agreement on how to define or measure it, and estimates of its prevalence vary widely. Five studies examine how people self-diagnose using the accessibility-diagnosticity model. We propose that risk perceptions are based on at least two inputs: es...

This topic was dedicated to the complexity of internet addiction and contains 23 articles submitted by prestigious workgroups and originally launched as a Special Issue entitled "Internet Addiction" [...].

It is concluded that DA among Malaysian adolescents can cause various impacts on physical health such as obesity, back pain, and neck pain, orthopaedic/joint muscle, eyesight problem, hearing problem, as well as physical inactivity.

This paper reviews the published articles relating to the mechanisms of METH use disorders, strategies used in the development of anti-METH immunotherapies, and the mechanism of action of these treatments and identifies areas for future investigation to speed their translation into clinical use.

The delay discounting (DD) and reward-seeking rates were high in relapse and dropout groups compared to the abstinence group and this difference was significant in P < 0.01 level.

Abstract: Aims: To explore how the temporal dimension of infinity manifests as a psycho-social dimension of addiction. Results: While notions of infinity have existed for thousands of years, at the turn of the 18th century significant new ideas develop in mathematics and philosophy. Simultaneously, concerns about the use of alcohol are raised by prominent members of society, medical professionals and by the clergy. While previously infinity was seen as a feature of divine power, it starts to be seen as an aspect of human nature. What was previously external starts to become internalised. With ...

Hasegawa et al. report that the release of DA in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), a brain structure associated with emotional processing, can trigger REM sleep in mice and also that selective manipulation of DA release within the BLA can trigger cataplexy, which occurs in the sleep disorder narcolepsy.

The behavioral genetic studies reporting gene and environment interactions that explain the polygenetic contribution to the resilience and vulnerability to develop addiction are reviewed.

The use of the terms " problematic smartphone use " and "smartphone addiction", different methodological approaches used in the study, such as the application of different scales and the lack of standardized diagnostic criteria, make it difficult to define " smartphone addiction".

Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are habit forming. Allowing people to set limits on their future screen time substantially reduces use, suggesting self-control problems. Additional evidence suggests people are inattentive to habit formation and partially unaware of self-control problems. Looking at these facts through the lens of our model s...

The resulting model may inform public policy by suggesting areas in need of greater graduate medical education training and more pain and addiction specialists and by suggesting hypotheses about the impact of these specialists on outcome that are worthy of further study.

Surveying international addiction researchers on their perspectives on the needs of addicted individuals, the utility of neuroscientific research for prevention and treatment, and future research priorities aimed to complement existing studies.

The genetic and epigenetic correlates of individual vulnerability are discussed, and many recent data converge on a gain-of-function explanation for circuit remodeling, revealing blueprints for novel addiction therapies.

It is revealed that cannabis addiction harms the various body systems and has significant implications for the addict’s state of health.

A critical factor in the development and maintenance of addiction is the persistent neuroadaptation that sensitizes the attribution of incentive salience to drugs and their cues, which explains why recovering from addiction is a long and slow process.

Vaping is an unsafe habit with addictive consequences, facilitated by false perceptions of safety and satisfying flavours and health education and public awareness are key to combating misinformation and addiction.

The current study provides further experimental support that AOD disorders are more stigmatised than others and suggests that MOA may relate differentially to perceived stigma, and that regional variability in such beliefs exists.

The role of pharmacists in opioid addiction management including prevention, screening, education, naloxone prescribing, counselling, and referral to treatment resources are explored.

The importance of understanding differences among women and men in opioid use and its biological and psychosocial effects to advance the gender‐based treatment approaches and effective public health policy is highlighted.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the implementation of real-time telemedicine and, in parallel, research has been conducted to test its effectiveness and Videoconferencing and telephone interventions are supported by solid evidence for risky alcohol use and alcohol use disorder, tobacco use disorder and opioid use disorder.

Abstract: Aim: The article presents the basic tenants of dialectical phenomenological psychopathology (DPP) of temporal experience in substance-related disorders. Results: DPP examines the conditions of possibility of lived experiences. It goes beyond mere qualitative descriptions of subjective psychological states to identify their pre-reflective structures. The modifications of these structures are considered essential to mental disorders, including additions. The paper argues that the phenomenon of addiction arises when there is a failure of the dynamic process of temporal balances and imba...