Tag: Addiction
New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is...
Jonathan Larsen, Temple University; Amy Yeung, Penn State; Dennis Scanlon, Penn State, and Renee Cloutier, University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania...
Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people...
Ana Clara Bobadilla, Colorado State University
Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards. This...
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes...
Karla Kaun, Brown University
Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as...
Colleges face gambling addiction among students as sports betting spreads
Jason W. Osborne, Miami University
Three out of four college students have gambled in the past year, whether legally...
To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close...
Debra J. Rosenthal, John Carroll University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry?
Ellen T. Meiser, University of Hawaii at Hilo and Eli R. Wilson, University of New Mexico
When the The...
A boon for sports fandom or a looming mental health crisis?...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
A lifelong sports fan, I grew up hearing tales of sports figures felled by gambling...
Access to sports betting in the US has exploded since 2018...
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University and Shane Kraus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
For most of U.S....
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
