BrainWeighve Is a Displacement Intervention
Dr. Robert A. Pretlow, publisher of AddictionNews, gave a presentation on displacement intervention at ICOCD2025.
Strategies for Breaking Free From Smartphone Addiction
A systematic review of therapies for treating smartphone addiction identifies a wide variety of options.
The Golden Rule of Habit Change
Big Think has assembled a montage of three brilliant thinkers on habit substitution.
Pain, Addiction, and the PVT
The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) – a node in the brain – could be the connection between addiction and pain.
New Study Uses GLP-1 Drugs to Map the Pathways of Addiction
A summary of the research on GLP-1 drugs and addiction brings us one step closer to a unified theory of addiction.
Attentional Bias Modification
Attentional bias makes people overly sensitive to certain stimuli. Attentional bias modification attempts to fix that.