Q. Is there a relationship between OCD and addiction?
Answer By: Helen Blair Simpson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic
Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute
“This is an area of hot research … There’s a new model of addictions which says it starts with you impulsively taking a substance but then as you take the substance in fact you lose the ability to control the ability to take it anymore and that addiction becomes a compulsion …”