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The Science of Substance Abuse

Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label behavioral addiction. Show all posts

Showing posts with label behavioral addiction. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Is Shoplifting the Opiate of the Masses?

Another look at "behavioral addictions" and the DSM-V. The DSM-V, when it debuts it 2012, is set to replace the category of “Su...

Saturday, June 25, 2011

That Pesky Gambling Question

The DSM-V is set to label problem gambling an addiction. Nobody has ever bet enough on the winning horse. — Unknown wise person I use...

Monday, June 8, 2009

A Drug for Kleptomania?

Naltrexone curbs shoplifting . It seems like such an unlikely finding: In a University of Minnesota study of kleptomania—the compulsion to s...

Friday, February 13, 2009

Compulsive Gambling [Guest Post]

14 hours at the roulette wheel. [Editors Note: Addiction Inbox has not covered the so-called behavioral or non-traditional addictions--Inter...

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