Gaming firms should make more of their data hoard available to researchers. If—as seems likely—worries about addictiveness are overblown, it is hard to think of a clearer way of showing it.

The notion of "addictiveness" is that objects or activities can magnetically draw people to overuse them. But once you appreciate that addiction is a psychological process within people, as I've ...

An October 20 study in JAMA Network Open provides evidence that, even in smokers from vulnerable populations, reducing nicotine content to low levels decreases addictiveness—a timely finding as ...

Dexamphetamine – a restricted stimulant drug used to treat narcolepsy and Attention Deficient Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – might not be as addictive as previously thought, new research from ...

US: Ingredients that help enhance the appeal of “light” and “low-tar” cigarettes may contribute to the addictiveness of smoking, a study suggests. Researchers scoured more than 7 million ...

University of Arizona researchers say they are closer to developing a pain relief treatment that dramatically diminishes the danger of opioids. The research is focused on a new compound created at ...

TikTok users are drawn to the videos — some just seconds long — which offer a wide range of everything from viral dance challenges to serious commentary and everything in between. What always gets my ...

University of Arizona researchers say they are closer to developing a pain relief treatment that dramatically diminishes the danger of opioids. The university has licensed the compound to an ...