HAVE DRUG ADDICTIONS A PATHOLOGIC BASIS?

A review of pathological explanation on behavioral addictions and its comparison with drug addictions

In the past, addiction was known only by drug addictions, Currently, its definition has become much broader. Gambling, compulsive buying, video game addiction, problematic internet use, and even extreme work or sports can be classified as addictions. The existing criteria for experts in diagnosing different types of behavioral addictions are highly controversial, and this has made it difficult ...

Food and drug addictions: Similarities and differences

This review examines the merits of 'food addiction' as an explanation of excessive eating (i.e., eating in excess of what is required to maintain a healthy body weight). It describes various apparent similarities in appetites for foods and drugs. For example, conditioned environmental cues can arouse food and drug-seeking behaviour, 'craving' is an experience reported to precede eating and drug...

Can tobacco dependence provide insights into other drug addictions?

Within the field of addiction research, individuals tend to operate within silos of knowledge focused on specific drug classes. The discovery that tobacco dependence develops in a progression of stages and that the latency to the onset of withdrawal symptoms after the last use of tobacco changes over time have provided insights into how tobacco dependence develops that might be applied to the s...

Does Crohn's disease have a mycobacterial basis?

Does umbilical cord bilirubin level have predictive value in pathologic neonatal hyperbilirubinemia?

Introduction The increase in the use of breast feeding and the decrease in mothers' hospitalization in the past few years have caused  an increase in the infant bilirubin level, so it is necessary to introduce methods which can identify infants with higher risks of hyperbiliru binemia. The aim of this study is to determine the predictive value of measuring the umbilical cord bilirubin for patho...