Is there any connection between eating disorders, alcoholism, smoking and drug addiction?

Are the causes of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating the same as the causes for alcoholism, smoking and other addictions?

 Research on eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia and binge eating, has shown that there are similarities between many cases of eating disorders and addictive conditions such [...]

Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Ideally, the drug addiction and mental health problem should be treated simultaneously.  For any substance abuser, however, the first step in dual diagnosis treatment must be detoxification  or drug detox- a period of time during which the body is allowed to cleanse itself of alcohol or drugs.  Ideally, drug detoxification should take place [...]

A novel experiment conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Professor George Loewenstein and colleagues may explain why people try a drug, such as heroin, for the first time despite ample evidence that it is addictive and creates a drug addiction or opiate addiction. The results of the study, which are being published in the Journal of [...]