In addition, addiction is typically marked by urges or craving—wanting a substance so badly it becomes difficult to think about anything else. Intoxication has its own distinctive psychological ...
Meditation, particularly mindfulness-based practices, has been extensively studied for its role in treating addiction. By promoting awareness, emotional regulation, and changes in brain function, ...
Animal data has shown significant overlap between the consumption of added sugars and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, cross-sensitisation, cross-tolerance, cross ...
In the same way that GLP-1 drugs reduce food cravings, they also seem to reduce cravings for drugs and alcohol. A study in the journal Addiction found that people addicted to alcohol who took Ozempic ...