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Reconceptualizing addiction as metabolic-arousal dysregulation: a structured theory-synthesis across neurobiological, physiological and psychological domains
Addictology 1 min.
Prevailing models of addiction emphasize reward dysregulation, stress neuroadaptation and impaired executive control, but typically treat metabolic disturbance as secondary. Convergent evidence across neuroimaging, physiological and endocrine domains suggests that instability in energy mobilization and...
Evaluating public health campaigns on health promotion, substance use prevention and physical activity: a systematic review
Addictology 1 min.
Public health campaigns on substance use and physical activity aid disease prevention. This review examines how process evaluations are conducted in substance use and physical activity campaigns, focusing on methodologies, theoretical frameworks, implementation quality, fidelity, reach, and delivery....
Psychosocial factors behind addiction-a six-wave longitudinal comparison of at-risk gambling and drinking
Addictology 1 min.
Research indicates that shared and specific underlying factors influence different addictions, sometimes resulting in co-occurring problems. The evidence concerning risk and protective factors for gambling and alcohol addiction, along with their co-occurrence, remains ambiguous. To address this gap,...
The MotivATE randomized controlled trial: treating food addiction with adapted motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy versus a waitlist control condition
Addictology 10 min.
“Food addiction” or addictive-like eating is a topic that has garnered increasing attention, with studies proliferating following publication of the Yale Food Addiction Scale [1], a self-report measure that assesses this type of eating based on substance use disorder (SUD) criteria of the...
