Significant increase in addictions in Austria

The number of people with addictions has also risen significantly in Austria recently - and there is no end in sight to this trend. Against this background, the book "Sucht. Neue Erkenntnisse und Behandlungswege" is published by MANZ-Verlag as part of MedUni Vienna's "Health Knowledge" series. In it, Gabriele Fischer and Arkadiusz Komorowski from MedUni Vienna's Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy counter traditional ways of thinking with scientifically based facts. In addition to alcohol addiction and the abuse of "new psychoactive substances", it is above all "binge eating" that is causing increasing concern in everyday clinical practice. According to internationally renowned addiction researcher Gabriele Fischer from MedUni Vienna, the rising number of people with obesity is also linked to the increasing prevalence of binge eating disorder (BED). BED is defined as the binge-like consumption of enormous quantities of food, which occurs repeatedly and over a long period of time as a result of cravings typical of addiction.