Washington, May 23 (ANI): Research shows that high-fructose corn syrup can cause behavioural reactions in rats similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine.

Washington, May 23 (ANI): Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unraveled the molecular foundations of cocaine's effects on the brain, and identified a compound that blocks cravings for the drug in cocaine-addicted mice.

Sydney, May 21(ANI): The 2013 Yellow Social Media Report has analyzed that a growing number of Australians are using social network at an addictive rate wherever they can, even in toilet cubicles!

London, May 13 (ANI): Addiction to games is being blamed for increase in the number of young kids being hospitalised with serious sleep disorders.

London, May 12 (ANI): Amy Winehouse tried to kill herself when she was just ten years old after her dad Mitch left her mum Janis for another woman less than a year earlier, a new book claims.

Washington, May 10 (ANI): People who are addicted to drugs or alcohol increase their offspring's risk of suffering from depressed in adulthood, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray was not qualified to treat him for insomnia or drug addiction and ruined resuscitation efforts, an expert cardiologist told a jury on Tuesday.

London, May 5 (ANI): Facebook and other social networking sites can affect your mental health, scientists have claimed.

Washington, May 1(ANI): Mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar diet by the time they are weaned, a research from the University of Adelaide has suggested.

London, May. 1 (ANI): Michael Jackson spent years hiding his "deepest darkest" drug secrets from the world, a court has been told.

London, Apr. 17 (ANI): Ozzy Osbourne, who stunned his family and pals when he managed to banish his addiction almost a decade ago, has revealed that he is just 44 days sober, following an 18-month binge.

Washington, April 14 (ANI): Gerard Butler has claimed that no one works "harder" than him.

London, Apr 14 (ANI): As his family continues their 26 billion-pound court case against concert firm AEG, lawyers for the company will show film of Michael Jackson apparently drunk or under the influence of drugs in a bid to prove that he had long-standing addiction problems.

London, Apr 12 (ANI): English football legend Paul Gascoigne, who has been fighting a long battle with alcohol addiction, had broken down as he named his friends Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard as the lifesavers who helped pay for his rehabilitation, at an interview.

London, April 11(ANI): Michael Jackson had a secret medical implant to stop him getting pleasure from opiates.

Karachi, April 7 (ANI): Pakistani women models have revealed that it's the designers and photographers who are pressurizing them to lose weight.

London, Apr 5 (ANI): Famous English comedian and TV host Alan Carr will be removing his famous drinks globe from the set before interviewing booze-battling football idol Paul Gascoigne.

Washington, April 4 (ANI): Justin Bieber, who was rumoured to have drop-crotch pants addiction, has finally donned normal pants in Teen Vogue's May issue.

Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): A new study in rats has found that stimulating a key part of the brain reduces compulsive cocaine-seeking, suggesting the possibility of changing addictive behavior generally.

London, Apr. 4 (ANI): Russell Brand has said that meditation helped him to get over his divorce from his wife Katy Perry and his heroin and alcohol addiction.

London, April 4 (ANI): Stimulating one part of the brain with laser light can wipe away addictive behavior in rats - or conversely turn non-addicted rats into compulsive cocaine seekers, a new study has shown.

Melbourne, April 1 (ANI): Tom Jones' love child Jonathan Berkery has said he became a gun-carrying drug dealer who slept rough because he was abandoned by the singer, who has always refused to acknowledge his existence.

London, Mar. 29 (ANI): England football legend Paul Gascoigne has replaced his life-threatening addiction to alcohol with a new obsession - sweets.

Washington, Mar. 28 (ANI): Researchers from the US, the UK and New Zealand have identified genetic risk factors that may help speed up a teenager's progression into smoking addiction.

Washington, Mar. 27 (ANI): A Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center team that is studying alcohol addiction has new research, which might shed light on why some people are more susceptible to alcohol addiction than others.