The number of diabetic patients has been increasing every year.

Many excessive gamblers, gamers and sex 'addicts' have psychiatric conditions like anxiety, attention deficit disorder and depression.

The strictest definition of addiction refers to a disease resulting from changes in brain chemistry caused by the compulsive use of drugs.

Researchers examined the correlation between drug use and religious attendance of women.

Scientists could build better drugs by learning from molecules derived from bacteria called thiocarboxylic acids.

Multivariable analysis highlighted that obesity more than doubled the likelihood of not achieving remission in women.

Travellers carrying standby antibiotics take them more often than those travelling without such drugs.

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Users of heroin and other injection drugs were 16 times more likely than other people to develop severe illnesses.

A new study identifies a much higher risk of alcohol relapse among those with opioid misuse.