Behavioral addictions are incompletely understood with respect to their underlying etiologies. This incomplete understanding may contribute to the frequent relapse and dropout rate often observed with behavioral addictions. ...

The development of an addiction considerably damages physical health, social functioning, and quality of life; however, people with substance use disorders act as if they were unaware of how drug and alcohol use contribute ...

Follow-ups of crack consumption are scarce in literature. the aim of this article was to investigate the evolution of a cohort of crack users and identify longitudinal outcomes. for the study, 131 consecutive crack users ...

Introduction and aims. Although there has been increasing research attention to the concept of addiction careers and treatment careers, there are few standardised measures for assessing illicit drug using careers. A new ...

In the last years the rate of obesity is increasing dramatically in many Latin-American countries. For improving the outcome of the treatment, some of the public hospitals and private clinics created obesity units with ...

Computational models of impulsive decision-making, like temporal discounting, are widely used to study addiction. However, clinically validating a marker supposes developing methods that provide high accuracy and reliability. ...

Background and aims: The number of patients with gambling disorder (GD) whose gambling preference is sports betting is increasing. However, their clinical profile and their responses to psychological treatments -compared ...

Objective: To conduct the first systematic literature review of clinical trials of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) for the treatment of substance abuse disorders and addictive behaviors. Methods: A search of the MEDLINE, Embase and ...

The treatment of cocaine-dependent individuals (CDI) is substantially challenged by high drop-out rates, raising questions regarding contributing factors. Recently, a number of studies have highlighted the potential of ...