Britney Spears' Childhood: An Addiction Specialist Explains How It Shaped Her Behavior Today

Nov 21, 2007 - “She’s sort of our new Michael Jackson,” says Dr. Drew Pinsky as he talks about the traumas in Britney’s past — her father’s substance abuse, and a family history of mental imbalance — and how they may explain her current mental state US: What in Britney Spears’ childhood led her to where she is now? DP: It's how her father treated her, it's the divorce and it’s the genetics. - 2 Comments

WOW: Addicting Computer Game Ends Marriage

Feb 25, 2008 - Video games can be, well, addicting. God knows how many late nights I spent trying get out of that one dungeon, or unlock that one sword, or kept saying to myself, “Just one more level…” Still, I draw my limits on things like World of Warcraft. In case you aren’t up on the MMORPG (that’s Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game) front, World of Warcraft is the most popular MMO out there, with well over six million – yes, million – players. - 0 Comments

Internet addictions: A real medical menace?

Mar 25, 2008 - Alcohol, drugs, food, sex, and even shopping are all candidates for medical treatment and are recognized as genuine mental disorders, so what about the Internet? Internet addiction -defined as "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations, and email/text messaging" - is becoming so common that at least one psychiatrist says it merits inclusion in psychiatry's official handbook of mental illness, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders." Dr. - 4 Comments

Amy Winehouse To Help Drug Addicts

Jul 23, 2008 - Amy Winehouse is showing the first steps at trying to get healthy. She tells her friends that she wants to volunteer at rehab centers to counsel people with drug problems. One of her friends, who has emphysema, says that Amy feels so good about herself that she wants to make a difference and give back to people who are battling addictions. - 0 Comments

Nicole Kidman says she doesn’t have addictions, but love is her “fatal flaw”

Jun 18, 2008 - Nicole Kidman usually gives very careful and controlled interviews in which she inevitably slips and reveals the cracks in her marriage. Or maybe she plans those little telling statements, letting out just enough information to let us know that she’s having trouble without making her comments seem deliberate. Last October she made a very strange comment to Interview Magazine that she doesn’t ever say she’s happy in her marriage because “you never know where something is going” and that “People’s lives together are complicated and beautiful and that’s what they should stay.” In an interview with Vogue, in which her tiny pregnant belly pokes out behind a couture dress on the cover, Kidman says that she and her husband of two years, country singer Keith Urban, were “two lonely people” who “fell into each other.” She also says in a roundabout way that she’s addicted to love. - 0 Comments

Jamie Lee Curtis Freed from 'Rock of Addiction'

Jun 17, 2008 - Jamie Lee Curtis is turning 50 and shouting it from the rooftops – along with a few lessons she's learned along the way. "Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me," the actress, who will reach the half-century point on Nov. - 0 Comments