The latest occasion for thinking about addiction is the approaching publication of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM-5. In February, the APA issued a draft ...

Addiction can be a loaded term. The word originated in the 16th century to denote an abnormal attachment, typically to alcohol, and was derived from the Latin term for legally binding someone into a ...

IRELAND’S FIRST FULLY-FUNDED gambling addiction treatment programme has been launched today. The new programme, labelled the ...

When Passerose Mantoy first started working in addiction services in Dublin in 2000, the city was at the back end of the heroin epidemic which had gripped it throughout the 1990s. Many people were ...