This case involves a homemaker 43 years of age who is addicted to using the Internet. This case was selected as it demonstrates that a nontechnologically oriented woman with a reportedly content home life and no prior addiction or psychiatric history abused the Internet which resulted in significant impairment to her family life. This paper defines addictive use of the Internet, outlines the su...

Philosophy underlying harm reduction  Problem drug use is not an all or nothing phenomenon: it ranges on a continuum of minimal use to extreme abuse  Changing addictive behavior is necessarily a stepwise process with complete abstinence as the final goal. Any movement in the direction of reduced harm, no matter how small, is positive  Sobriety is not for everyone. The harm reduction approach...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to develop a gambling addictive behavior scale for adolescents. METHODS The process involved construction of a conceptual framework, initial item search, verification of content validity, selection of secondary items, and extraction of final items. The participants were 299 adolescents from two middle schools and four high schools. Item analysis, factor analys...

This chapter reviews the literature on mobile phone addiction, the excessive use of mobile phone technology, which is an impulse control disorder with negative social and psychological consequences. It provides a clear definition of mobile phone addiction, along with its theoretical origin, diagnostic criteria for assessment, and an identification of the symptoms and consequences of addictive b...

abstract introduction connection of socioeconomic status measures (such as income and education and parental addiction) to childhood leukemia are likely to vary with place and time. the aim of this study was to assess the relation between socioeconomic status and childhood leukemia. materials and methods a case- control study conducted on 86 case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia age 0-14 years i...

G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center where he conducts training and research on the prevention and treatment of alcohol and other addictive behavior problems in college students and Native American Youth as well as on the effects of Vipassana meditation on relapse and general well-being. He received his Ph.D. in psychology fro...

Compulsive buying is a form of addictive consumption where consumers purchase goods that they either don’t need or can’t afford. This paper reviews the literature on this problem behavior and summarizes the findings in the following three areas: conceptual definition, reasons “why” consumers engage in this type of addictive consumption, predictors of compulsive shoppers and the correlation with...

OBJECTIVES We propose that highly processed foods share pharmacokinetic properties (e.g. concentrated dose, rapid rate of absorption) with drugs of abuse, due to the addition of fat and/or refined carbohydrates and the rapid rate the refined carbohydrates are absorbed into the system, indicated by glycemic load (GL). The current study provides preliminary evidence for the foods and food attribu...