addiction
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The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, extended by the Affordable Care Act in 2010, required health plans to cover mental-health services at parity with medical and surgical care.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
The Omid Addiction Treatment facility used to be known as Camp Phoenix a decade ago during the war in Afghanistan, when US-led forces were fighting Taliban militants.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Addiction is a complex disorder with intermingled roots in genetics, biology and environmental triggers.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
The idea for the study initially bubbled up during a Fralin Biomedical Research Institute faculty retreat and was led by Warren Bickel, professor and director of the Addiction Recovery Research Center, who died in 2024.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2025
He’s the director of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, one of the first places in the world to treat technology addiction as a medical disorder.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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