The effects of alcohol have been widely studied during the past century, corroborating the idea that this tiny chemical compound acts throughout most of our neurotransmitter systems since it is capable of inducing addictive behaviour. Two of the most serious problems of alcohol addiction are craving and relapse; several studies have demonstrated that relapse is related to the anxious state whic...

The article discusses Hanna Szumańska-Grossowa’s reminiscences about Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, their personal contacts, the poet’s musical taste, and his alcohol addiction.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Smartphone addiction is a recent concern that has resulted from the dramatic increase in worldwide smartphone use. This study assessed the risk and protective factors associated with smartphone addiction in college students and compared these factors to those linked to Internet addiction. METHODS College students (N = 448) in South Korea completed the Smartphone Addiction ...

This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction. It examines the prevalence of alcohol and substance use and abuse among Jews, including a discussion of some of the difficulties in estimating prevalence and of factors involved in ch...

Much has been written about the interaction of stressors (physical, social, and psychological) and alcohol addiction based on studies in humans and preclinical models. We begin by considering the signifi cance and complexity of alcoholism and the options for effectively modeling it in animals, particularly rodents. We then focus on the following aspects of stress-alcohol interactions: (1) compu...

In the United States, 21.6 million individuals older than 12 are diagnosed with abuse or dependence to drugs and/or alcohol each year [1]. Consequently, direct and indirect costs to society stemming from addiction total more than $700 billion annually in the United States alone [1]. Addiction to drugs and alcohol has long been recognized as a mental health disorder, appearing in some form in th...

The article highlights the current issue of peculiarities emergence addictive tendencies in adolescence based on child-parent relations family. On basis psychodiagnostic methods, it was found that various forms inadequate upbringing family (high demandingness parents, high strictness control relation to child, emotional distance denial child by lack cooperation between parents and disagreement ...

BACKGROUND The consequences of chronic alcohol dependence cause important health and economic burdens worldwide. Relapse rates after standard treatment (medication and psychotherapy) are high. There is evidence from in vivo investigations and from studies in patients that the brain's reward system is critically involved in the development and maintenance of addictive behavior, suggesting that m...

AIM The aim of the study was assess the meaning of preferred temporal orientation for results of alcohol dependence therapy. METHODS One hundred and sixteen (116) (95 men and 21 women) alcohol addict patients were evaluated at the beginning of the alcohol addiction outpatient therapy. The temporal orientation and attitude for time was assessed by using Temporal Orientation Questionnaire-AION ...