
Mind & BrainJanuary 1, 2016
Food, Sex, Gambling, the Internet: When Is It Addiction?
Are "behavioral addictions" really mental illnesses or just bad habits?
Carl Erik Fisher is assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University. He works in the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry and teaches in the university's Masters in Bioethics program.

Food, Sex, Gambling, the Internet: When Is It Addiction?
Are "behavioral addictions" really mental illnesses or just bad habits?

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