Drug abuse and dependence are major medical, social, and economic problems for the world. Whereas the means to reduce abuse are well known, drug dependency is a complex medical disease and current treatments attempt to reduce or prevent drug craving in dependent people as part of therapy. With the increased understanding of the neural mechanisms of drug dependence and the availability of severa...

Drug addiction is a worldwide epidemic. To reduce its spread, understanding the nature of addiction is crucial and possible treatments have to be developed. Current models of drug addiction only explain why addiction is overwhelming and cannot be overcome. Instead we focus on the dynamic of addiction, which includes rehabilitation and relapse. The model identifies the combination of factors tha...

Leadership research has focused on the positive effects of transformational and charismatic leadership but has neglected the negative side effects. Addressing this gap, we analysed followers’ dependency on the leader as a relevant negative side effect in the relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ creativity and developed an integrative framework on parallel positive and...