Current Addiction Reports

Abstract Purpose of Review Neuroscientific models of addiction have evolved over the past four decades from single-circuit dopamine frameworks to dual-process, tripartite, and multidimensional accounts. Despite these advances, existing models incompletely account for the lived experience of addiction and for developmental, social, and mental-health factors that contribute to heterogeneity in risk…

This review aimed to synthesize recent literature on the comorbidity between compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and addictive disorders, including substance use disorders (SUD) and behavioral addictions (BA). It sought to examine assessment practices, clinical profiles, treatment strategies, and transdiagnostic mechanisms to inform integrated interventions. CSBD frequently co-occurs with …

This paper explores how interactive media use (e.g., video gaming, social media) relates to mental health during identity development. We examine whether problematic use is better understood as a cause or consequence of poor mental health and propose societal values as a contextual factor influencing this dynamic. While research consistently links high media use to mental health concerns, causal …

This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the strength of associations between gambling motives and problem gambling severity. Despite previous reviews highlighting the importance of gambling motives, none have synthesized evidence across all validated measures and sample types. A systematic search of peer-reviewed literature (1993-2025) identified 63 studies (66 articles), with 53 studie…

Advancing research on adversity and substance use requires the use of validated measures, the simultaneous assessment of multiple stress responses to capture their interactions, and greater theorization of resistance and fawning/strategic assimilation, which remain underdeveloped and understudied in substance use research.

The extant research on the relationship between problematic gaming (PG) and academic achievement (AA) has been summarized in a recent systematic review. However, the data was not statistically synthesized, imposing a limit to their conclusions. The current study aimed to address this limitation by conducting a new systematic review and meta-analysis to synthesize the data. A systematic review of …

Affective changes can be reliably measured in daily life, and evidence supports using dimensional models of PDs compared to categorical diagnoses. Future work should build on these strengths and focus on careful translations of SUD theories to research.