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China’s anti-addiction regulations for video games are making it difficult for game developers to operate — here’s why
The developers of Fortnite in China have shut down the servers of the game in the country. Fortress…
Cold therapy exposure can help addicts with anxiety and depression without using pills. Here are 7 benefits of ice therapy.
Cold-exposure therapy benefits health in a number of ways, including reducing inflammation, improvi…
Kayla Lyons
Afghans are self-medicating with antidepressants bought on the black market as despair at life under Taliban rule grows
Many Afghans are traumatized and depressed having to live under Taliban control. The mental health …
Joshua Zitser,Alia Shoaib
California could pay drug users to stay sober. New data suggests the strategy leads to long-term recovery.
A 2021 analysis found that a rewards system is better than therapy or 12-step programs at helping d…
Aria Bendix
Can you die from alcohol withdrawal? Understanding the dangers and why it's important to detox safely
About 5% of people going through alcohol withdrawal will experience delirium tremens, which causes …
Erin Heger, Jeffrey Ditzell
'We're treated like drug addicts': As America fights opioid addiction, the healthcare system is failing people who live with chronic pain
In 2017, the crisis gained national attention when President Donald Trump declared it a public-heal…
Lydia Ramsey
The shooter blamed sex addiction, but experts have 'no doubt' the Atlanta killings were racially motivated
Experts say the Atlanta spa shootings are related to America's "long history" of sexualizing and de…
Irene Jiang,Haven Orecchio-Eg…
If the GOP doesn't quit its Trump addiction it'll suck the life out of American democracy
It's pitiful to see most of Trump's party join him in burning everything down after his loss, and i…
Linette Lopez
A medication used to treat heroin addiction could become the first fast-acting anti-suicide drug
Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Washington State University, and some colleagues in Israel decid…
Tanya Lewis
Inside the search for new ways to treat pain amid America's fight against opioid addiction
For patients looking for alternatives to opioids, it can be hard to get them paid for by insurance …
Charlotte Hu
Apple's iPhone addiction tools are like casinos warning about gambling, says app maker
"Most features Apple announced are a carbon copy of products other developers already offer," Dunn …
Shona Ghosh
Why an ex-cop who posed as an undercover heroin addict wants drugs decriminalized
So around two years later I was doing an operation in Fenton, Staffordshire, on a dealer I'd been b…
Kashmira Gander, The Independ…
No, the World Health Organization did not list 'sex addiction' as an official disorder - here's what's 'compulsive sexual behavior disorder' really is
But therapists and psychologists are still hotly debating what merits the label of "addiction" outs…
Hilary Brueck
America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'
Target and CVS call them criminal masterminds. Most are homeless or mentally ill.
Amy Martyn
The Supreme Court just made it easier for governments to remove unhoused people from public spaces
Homelessness in the US hit a record high last year, fueled in large part by the nation's severe sho…
Eliza Relman
Matthew Perry's death means hard questions for the ketamine movement
Ketamine contributed to Matthew Perry's death. Experts are grappling with how to talk about the dru…
Anna Silman
The economic cost of obesity is expected to soar to $4 trillion by 2035. Weight loss drugs like Ozempic could change that, Goldman Sachs says.
"By fighting obesity, these drugs seem to be fighting heart disease, which is the leading cause of …
Matthew Fox
Weight wasn't the only thing I lost when I took a weight-loss drug
I knew weight-loss drugs would change my body. I wasn't prepared for what they would do to my brain.
Albert Fox Cahn
How a Google loophole lets drug dealers hijack nearly any website — including our own
When Google updated how it crawled the web, drug dealers took advantage, turning unsuspecting websi…
Katherine Long
The terrifying ways mixing Xanax and alcohol may damage your brain and potentially prove fatal
One of the biggest risks of combining Xanax and alcohol is respiratory depression, a condition that…