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Substance use disorders (SUDs) and other addictive behaviors such as gambling disorder are globally prevalent and remain significant public health concerns. Since the 1950s, studies have examined psychedelics in the treatment of addictive behaviors with these studies demonstrating safety, feasibility, and potential therapeutic ben...
Die Differenzierung zwischen substanzinduzierten und substanzunabhängigen Störungen kann sowohl das klinische Management als auch die klinischen Resultate beeinflussen. Eine Möglichkeit zur Differenzierung dieser Störungen besteht in der Einordnung in eine zeitliche Abfolge, welche den Opioidkonsum und die Opioidabhängigkeit berücksichtigt. Dabei w...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) confers greater risk of alcohol and substance use disorders, which may be linked to altered compulsivity and impulsivity within the condition. However, no study has investigated the link between these constructs and behavioural addictions in ADHD. The aim of this study was to investigate whether indiv...
A key question about social media use is whether it constitutes an addiction. A possible frame of reference to investigate this question is the Incentive Sensitizations Theory (IST), as it provides a solid empirical background to understand the motivational and hedonic aspects of problematic behaviors. A central assumption of IST that addiction-rel...
This study aimed to examine the relationship between resilience and internet addictive behaviours, focusing on cross-cultural contexts involving tertiary education students in Ghana and Saudi Arabia. Using a cross-sectional survey design, data were collected from 738 students across selected universities in both countries. Structural equation model...
Prolonged gaming time, along with increased impulsivity—a key element of poor self-regulation—has been identified as linked to gaming disorder. Despite existing studies in this field, the relationship between impulsivity and gaming time remains poorly understood. The present study explored the connections between impulsivity, measured both by self-...
Background
Poor sleep quality and internet addiction are significant issues affecting adolescents globally, and Nepal is no exception. Several studies have independently assessed the prevalence and associated factors of poor sleep quality and internet addiction among Nepali adolescents and youth, but the relationship between sleep-related attribute...
The rapid development of smartphones has made them an inseparable part of education for university students, using such devices to communicate, learn, and access information. However, together with a lot of advantages, smartphones might turn into a source of serious disruptions, and their widespread use—especially in class—raises questions regardin...
Purpose: This two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of an app-based addiction prevention program in German vocational school students. Methods: Schools from 5 German federal states were recruited. No eligibility criteria for classes were applied; enrollment decisions were made by school heads or teachers. Students...
Values and beliefs play a crucial role in shaping our daily decisions and influencing behaviors, particularly regarding addiction. While addiction is often viewed as a disease characterized by a lack of control, it also involves choices that can lead to negative outcomes, such as drug use initiation. Personal accountability for these choices is ess...
Smartphone overdependence is a maladaptive behavior characterized by excessive and uncontrollable smartphone use despite negative consequences. Impulsivity and emotional dysregulation, which are multidimensional constructs with each factor exerting a different effect, have been found to influence the development and persistence of smartphone overde...
Objective: The present study examines the relationship between social media addiction and cyberbullying among adolescents.
Method: This descriptive study was conducted with the participation of 1,058 adolescents aged 14 to 17, between September 1, 2018, and January 1, 2019, in the Central Anatolian region of Türkiye. Data were collected using the A...
Introduction
Addictive behaviors, such as smoking, significantly impact population health, individual welfare, and economic policies. The Rational Addiction Model (Becker and Murphy, 1988) and the Time-Inconsistency Model (Gruber and Koszegi, 2001) are prominent frameworks used to explain substance use and its consequences. This essay critically ev...
Problema: O sofrimento psíquico decorrente ao uso prejudicial ou problemático de drogas psicoativas traz repercussões negativas sobre os usuários e seu contexto relacional, como a família e a comunidade. Objetivo: Analisar as adversidades confrontadas por familiares na atenção voltada aos dependentes de drogas, a partir do “Desenho da Estrada da Vi...
Aims
Research indicates that shared and specific underlying factors influence different addictions, sometimes resulting in co-occurring problems. The evidence concerning risk and protective factors for gambling and alcohol addiction, along with their co-occurrence, remains ambiguous. To address this gap, this study will conduct longitudinal researc...
Addictions seem to be more frequent in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis patients than in the general population. This cross-sectional observational study comparatively evaluated substance-related and behavioural addictions in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis patients and analysed possible addiction patterns. From October 2023 to April 2024, 100 atopi...
The comorbidity cycle between psoriasis and addictions remains unclear. The study aimed to investigate the cumulative incidence of addictions in psoriasis patients and controls in the Stockholm Psoriasis Cohort (SPC). The SPC is an observational cohort study that enrolled psoriasis patients between 2001 and 2005 and matched controls using the Swedi...
Prison has proven to be a suitable environment for the identification of various socio-demographic characteristics of those individuals whose drug use, or related crimes lead to incarceration. Furthermore, the prison environment could also support increased understanding of both the pattern and the relationship between drug use and the incidence of...
AIM: In this research, we attempted at exploring the relationships among urban left-behind children’s internet-addiction, personality traits and mental health. METHODS: In the form of three relevant questionnaires (Adolescent Pathological Internet Use Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Children’s Edition in Chinese and Mental Health Test), 7...
Previous research suggests that a lack of social connections predicts increased addiction-related problems, and that loss of control mediates this relationship. However, this mediation effect is inconsistent and depends on the type of addiction. We investigated if the loss of control mediated the relationship between low social connections and addi...
Implicit attitude is an academic conception always appears in cognitive psychology and sociology psychology. Implicit attitude can be defined as "retrospectively undetected (or misidentified) remnants of prior experience that mediate emotion, cognition, or behaviour towards a social object". These perspectives come from Anthony Greenwald and Mahzar...
This paper is devoted to the problem of psychological addiction to video games. Features of influence of video games on the self-consciousness of adolescents are indicated. Distinctions between dependent behavior and a condition of preoccupation with video games are specified. Results of work which was carried out in Russia are designated. The purp...
The psychological and physiological health of undergraduates was correlated with the sleep quality, which can be improved through increasing physical activity. However, the correlations between physical activity and sleep quality are subject to various factors. In this study, we investigated the effects of self-control and mobile phone addiction on...
Addiction is considered a chronic disorder that requires long-term treatment. Early identification of predictors of outcome may enable better and early adjustment of treatment. Daily fluctuations of craving have been shown to predict substance use within hours, making it a major target for treatment. The objective of this study was to examine wheth...
Az ártalmas gyermekkori élmények, illetve a későbbi életút során bekövetkezett traumák és a szenvedélybetegség kialakulása közötti összefüggések széles körben ismertek és jól dokumentáltak a nemzetközi szakirodalomban. Az elmúlt évtizedek kutatásai sok tekintetben egyértelművé tették a traumák neurobiológiai következményeit, illetve a szerhasználat...
Introdução: O consumo de álcool e cigarro eletrônico tem se intensificado, gerando preocupações. Embora o cigarro eletrônico tenha sido promovido como uma alternativa menos prejudicial ao tabaco, questões sobre os riscos associados já são descritas na literatura. Além disso, o uso de álcool, frequentemente vinculado à necessidade de socialização e...
This chapter summarizes the content and themes from the four chapters in this section on online gaming, violent and aggressive behaviors, and online gambling in youth. The chapters taken together suggest a convergence of online behaviors in which learning may contribute across behaviors. While strong data suggest relationships, albeit sometimes of...
Background
With the explosive development of the short-form video (SFV) industry in recent years, the issue of SFV addiction among young people has attracted increasing attention from scholarship. Researchers have found that proactive personality is negatively associated with behavioral addiction. Additionally, SFV Apps tend to place users in a “fi...
Introduction
To investigate the neurophysiological aspects of addiction, the microstate characteristics of internet gaming disorder (IGD), alcohol use disorder (AUD), and healthy control (HC) groups were compared using resting-state electroencephalography (EEG).
Methods
In total, 199 young adults (75 patients with IGD, 57 patients with AUD, and 67...
Objectives
The objectives are to explore the relationship between study stress and anxiety in high school students and the mediating role of physical activity and mobile phone addiction.
Design
A cross-sectional study.
Setting
129 high schools were randomly selected in 13 cities of Jiangsu province, China.
Participants
High school students aged...
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is more prevalent among U.S. veterans than non-veterans, and adversely affects functioning and quality of life. This study aimed to understand sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial factors associated with current alcohol use patterns among veterans with lifetime histories of AUD. We characterized past-year drinking p...
Structural asymmetry is a subtle but pervasive property of the human brain, which has been found altered in various psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders. However, little is known regarding potential alterations of structural asymmetry underlying internet gaming disorder (IGD). Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the structural features o...
Internet gaming disorder (IGD) among adolescents is a widespread public health issue, with far-reaching negative impacts on adolescents’ health and relationships with their families. This study evaluated the preliminary outcomes of a two-session Group Motivational Interviewing (GMI) programme designed to address the risk of IGD among students acros...
Hikikomori, a form of severe social withdrawal has been found to be associated with behavioral addictions such as gaming addiction and problematic social media use (PSMU). Since literature related to hikikomori is lacking in the Middle East, this study aimed to determine whether there are significant differences in hikikomori-like traits between tw...
Background
Food addiction is a chronic psychological disorder resulting from repeated consumption of highly palatable foods, leading to physical and mental harm. It involves individuals who struggle to control their intake of high-energy, high-fat, and high-sugar foods, often experiencing withdrawal reactions and intense cravings that trigger binge...
Background: Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) abnormalities are directly associated with obesity-associated disorders. The underlying mechanisms that confer increased pathological risk to VAT in obesity have not been fully described.
Methods: A case-control study was conducted that included 10 women with obesity (36.80 ± 7.39 years, BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²) and...
Several studies devoted their attention to the impact of burnout among healthcare professionals. For example, Barello and colleagues (2020) studied the dimensions of burnout among Italian frontline professionals. At the same time, in Portugal, Duarte and colleagues (2020) assessed burnout levels among healthcare workers, describing high levels of s...
Professional satisfaction is a dimension of workers' well-being and job-family balance. Thus, within the scope of the Burnout and Job Engagement research among healthcare professionals at Addictive Behavior and Dependencies in the North of Portugal, suggestions for improvement were collected, as well as the indication of satisfaction and discontent...
Burnout, depression and anxiety are important variables that impact professional well-being and the quality of responses and care provided in the CAD area. Current literature contextualizes the study of these variables, focusing on different protective factors such as engagement and the dimensions involved in this concept. The present work aims to...
This article explores the connection between childhood trauma and later addiction, drawing from studies in Addictive Behaviors (2020) and others. It highlights how early adverse experiences impair executive function, increasing susceptibility to substance use through poor impulse control and emotional regulation. The nature of trauma influences the...
Addictive behavior treatment networks comprise harm-reduction services and recovery programs. Recovery is an approach toward interventions for addictive behavior that focuses on the individual's empowerment, abilities, and life skills. Rehabilitation-oriented programs have evolved from traditional therapeutic communities to comprehensive services t...
Substance use disorders (SUDs) imposes profound physical, psychological, and socioeconomic burdens on individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole, but the available treatment options remain limited. Deep brain-machine interfaces (DBMIs) provide an innovative approach by facilitating efficient interactions between external devices and...
Introduction: sports nutrition and supplementation (SD) are commonly used by road and mountain runners to achieve their goals and increased performance. However, sometimes sports practice can become an obsession and/or addiction, although the literature on the use of DS and sports addiction (SD) is scarce. Objective: to describe and analyse the rel...
A mathematical model of the dual addiction dissemination dynamics of alcoholism and smoking was created and examined in this work, along with cost-effectiveness and optimal control techniques. The primary goal of the research is to determine which cost-efficient management techniques are most helpful in lowering the problem of dual addiction disper...
In both preclinical and clinical settings, dysregulated frontostriatal circuits have been identified as the underlying neural substrates of compulsive seeking/taking behaviors manifested in substance use disorders and behavioral addictions including internet gaming disorder (IGD). However, the neurochemical substrates for these disorders remain elu...
Introdução: Nos últimos anos, o uso de redes sociais cresceu consideravelmente, principalmente entre jovens e adultos jovens. Apesar de proporcionarem oportunidades de interação e apoio social, a utilização exagerada dessas plataformas está ligada a várias questões de saúde mental, como depressão, ansiedade e problemas de sono. Objetivo: Este texto...
Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
In chirurgischen Disziplinen werden schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen und eine hohe Unzufriedenheit der Chirurginnen und Chirurgen der verschiedenen Disziplinen aufgezeigt. Die psychischen Folgen dieser Bedingungen auf die Chirurginnen und Chirurgen selbst sowie Auswirkungen auf deren Familien sind bisher unzureichend beacht...
Mental health-related behaviours including addictive behaviours contribute significantly to the global burden of disease. Social norm interventions appear to be a cost-effective means of reducing addictive behaviour. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of social norm interventions for addictive behaviours. We searched...
Background: The addictive potential of areca nut (AN) and tobacco is well-documented, but
their combined neurobiological eff ects in AN-containing tobacco products (ANTP) remain
obscure. This study employed a three-stage in silico approach to investigate the potential
targets and pathways associated with the addictive properties of AN alone and in...
Background: The study aimed to assess the prevalence of internet addiction among Secondary level students in Waling Municipality, Syangja, Nepal. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 280 students aged 15-19 from three schools in Waling Municipality in January 2022; stratified simple random sampling proportional to the size of the po...
Mobile phone addiction has become a widespread phenomenon in Chinese society, attracting significant social attention. However, there is still limited understanding of complexities and relationships concerning anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and mobile phone addiction (MPA) among college students. To better understand the relationships among depr...
Background
Numerous studies have shown that e-cigarettes are addictive. For example, we previously showed that users of e-cigarette online forums discuss experiences of addiction in a netnographic analysis. However, it is unclear what makes e-cigarettes addictive apart from nicotine. In a focus group analysis, we recently identified 3 unique featur...
Background: The Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was the first instrument created specifically to assess Internet addiction (IA). Although it was not validated during its creation, its validity has since been confirmed thanks to subsequent studies. The IAT is the first global psychometric measure tested worldwide that has been used in several studies...
Gambling and substance use disorders (SUDs) are prevalent among U.S. military veterans and often co-occur. However, little is known about the clinical and behavioral correlates and suicidal risk of SUDs and gambling among veterans that can help inform targeted interventions for their co-occurrence. In the current study, we analyzed data from a nati...
Objective
Problematic use of the internet has been linked to emotional and sleep concerns, although relationships with specific types of internet use are less well understood. YouTube, as an online platform with video-watching features, may attract individuals to spend considerable time, for those experiencing problematic use be termed problematic...
Background
Children’s lives are increasingly mediated by digital technologies, yet evidence regarding the associations between internet use and depression is far from comprehensive and remains unclear.
Objective
This study aimed to investigate the dose-response association between internet use, including use time and addiction behaviors, and depre...
A exposição ao estresse durante a infância é amplamente reconhecida como um fator de risco significativo para o desenvolvimento de transtornos psicológicos e comportamentais, incluindo vícios na vida adulta. Este artigo de revisão examina os efeitos do estresse precoce no desenvolvimento cerebral e na vulnerabilidade ao vício, enfatizando a intrinc...
The ICD-11 was introduced in January 2022. In chapter 6, “Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders” we find the section “Disorders due to substance use and addictive behaviors” (section 6C4). Changes from the ICD-10 in this section include broadening the categories of harmful use and dependence, including more types of substances, and th...
O presente relatório pretende analisar os resultados obtidos a partir da
caracterização sociodemográfica das pessoas acolhidas/internadas na CTPP no período compreendido entre 2016 e 2022, assim como identificar fatores que possam estar relacionados com a atribuição de altas não clínicas e duração do tratamento. As CT prestam cuidados a utentes de...
One of the deviant acts that often occur and disturb the community is gambling. The act of gambling arises because of unstable conditions both in terms of religion, economy and morals. This study aims to determine the form or form of personality of online slot game players, especially among the community. In this study, the authors used a research...
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between internet addiction and violence tendency in adolescent students and the factors affecting violence tendency.
METHODS
The research was conducted on 2,648 middle school students in Turkey. A socio-demographic form, the Young Internet Addiction Scale, and the Violence Tendency...
Objective:
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of watching mukbang on eating behavior and to emphasize its importance.
Methods:
Students from various faculties at universities constitute the sample for this study. A total of 483 individuals participated in the study: 358 (74.1%) women and 125 (25.9%) men. The age range of the sam...
Abstract
Background/objective
Emotional dysregulation (ED) is a transdiagnostic variable underlying various psychiatric disorders, including addictive behaviors (ABs). This meta-analysis examines the relationship between ED and ABs (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, gambling, and gaming), and indicators of AB engagement (frequency, quantity/time of use,...
Excessive internet usage can precipitate internet addiction (IA), negatively impacting lifestyle behaviors, especially during adolescence. These warrants investigating associations between IA and lifestyle factors. To examine the relationship between IA and health-promoting lifestyle dimensions among Iranian high school students. A cross-sectional...
Abstract*
Background
Digital addictions are a major problem worldwide, which has increased considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this scenario, two important impact factors to explain this problem are stress and anxiety because of COVID-19. The objective of this research was to determine the impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on...
The article presents the results of a theoretical study of the problem of increasing the effectiveness of preventive activities of general practitioners and family doctors by developing a technology for the primary prevention of addictive behavior in patients using the method of developing personal self-regulation and a method for developing the co...
The purpose of the current study was to examine the risk factors of young children’s smartphone addiction in a longitudinal study design. Data collected from 313 participants (mean age, 4.5 ± 0.82 years; male, 49.8%) over 4 years for Kids Cohort for Understanding of Internet Addiction Risk Factors in Early Childhood were analyzed in this study. Mix...
Editorial Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) definiert pathologische Abhängigkeit als einen Zustand, der durch den übermäßigen Konsum giftiger Substanzen verursacht wird. Der Zustand ist durch zwei Hauptmerkmale gekennzeichnet: 1) Toleranzentwicklung, d. h. die Notwendigkeit einer zunehmend höheren Dosis der Substanz, um die gewünschte Wirkung z...
Objectives: Humans, with their unique genetic profile, exhibit a greater propensity to develop and maintain addiction compared to other animals. This paper offers a detailed examination of addiction, co-occurring traits, and psychologic disorders, focusing on neurobiological and molecular aspects. Furthermore, the authors investigate the potential...
El presente estudio se desarrolló para evaluar la prevalencia de comportamientos potencialmente adictivos relacionados con el uso de Internet entre estudiantes de educación media, específicamente de décimo y undécimo grado. Se inició con una introducción a la creciente preocupación sobre el impacto de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicació...
Introducción: Los comportamientos adictivos son considerados como una desviación comportamental y un problema de salud física y mental que afecta a muchas personas a nivel mundial. Existen comportamientos adictivos con y sin sustancia, tales como el juego patológico, la dependencia de las pantallas, las compulsiones alimentarias, entre otros. Este...