Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you curious about the world's most unusual habits? People can get hooked on things you might never even consider addictive.

For decades, the face of addiction was painted with a broad, mostly male brush. Rough around the edges. Down and out. That narrow image lets a lot of women slip through the cracks, especially ...

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Inside the massive dining room at San Patrignano, windowed walls overlook northern Italy's rambling hillsides. Taking in the arresting view is a 20-year-old from Detroit. Sometimes Michael is ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Some people can become addicted to taking revenge, says psychiatrist and legal expert James Kimmel. But they can also be rid of the addiction, he ...

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular when a person cannot stop these behaviors despite experiencing negative ...

A large study of data from Veterans Affairs finds that people on GLP-1 drugs were less likely to develop substance abuse disorder or overdose.