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What Happens When a Sober Influencer Relapses?

KEEPS COMING BACK? – Nov. 3, 2024 - Our culture produces influencers for every imaginable product and lifestyle, and recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol is no different. Some sober influencers satirize their... Read More...

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Utah’s Porn Addiction

VIDEO ONLY – AT ARM’S LENGTH – Oct. 31, 2024 - Utah might be considered the anti-pornography capital of the United States, and many locals would likely wear this badge with pride. Utah was the first state to pass a r... Read More...

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Gambling Is Easier and a Global ‘threat to public health’

RISKY BUSINESS – Oct. 25, 2024 - Worldwide, nearly 450 million adults participate in what’s called “risk gambling,” which can impact finances, mental health, relationships and work, according to the report, which was... Read More...

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AI-Powered Exploitive Crimes Exploding

ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE HIGH – Oct. 10, 2024 - The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 38,000 reports about investment scams from January to October, amounting to $4.7 billion in losses. That’s up from 30,000... Read More...

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States Sue TikTok For Harming Youth’s Brains

GET IN LINE – Oct. 8, 2024 - More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is damaging children’s mental health with a produ... Read More...

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The Self-Love Recovery Podcast

VIDEO – LIVE AND LEARN – Sept. 19, 2024 - In this insightful discussion, Ross Rosenberg and Karen McMahon delve into the challen... Read More...

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Mental Health Warning on Social Media Sites?

FRIGHTENING VIDEO – IS IT TOO LATE? – Sept. 11, 2024 - “Social media platforms are designed to addict users—especially our kids —to spend countless hours digging for their algorithmic fix,” Coleman said in a news rel... Read More...

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Thousands of Therapy Sessions Exposed by Unsecured Database

AUDIO – HACKED 1.7 MILLION SESSIONS – Sept. 6, 2024 - THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE’S highly sensitive health details, including audio and video of therapy sessions, were openly accessible on the internet, new research has rev... Read More...

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Heart of the Matter – Podcast

AUDIO – LADIES OF THE DAY – Sept. 2024 - Braunwyn Windham-Burke, who starred in two seasons of the hit Bravo TV show “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” joins Elizabeth Vargas for the season 6 premiere episode of... Read More...

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Connecting With Others, Yourself, God and Rachel Kove

VIDEO – SHE’S GOT IT GOING ON – Sept. 2, 2024 - Thank you for dropping in on the @KnockinDoorzDown podcast. I am excited to have you eavesdrop on my conversation with the awesome Rachel Kove. Rachel Kove is a cert... Read More...

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Understanding Social Media Addiction

AUDIO – WISHFUL SCROLLING – Aug. 27, 2024 - From endless scrolling to dopamine hits of likes and shares, social media has become... Read More...

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Marriage Cannot Fix a Pornography Addiction

AUDIO – WHAT CAN? – Aug. 19, 2024 - A common reaction in hearing about a pornography addiction is wondering if something is “off” in the marriage, and especially in the bedroom ... In this episode we discuss the harm... Read More...

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Have Hackers Stolen the Social Security #s of Every American?

CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT – Aug. 14, 2024 - Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog, said that bad actors could do “all kinds of things” with the leaked information, the most worrisome probably being to try to take... Read More...

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Hang Up Your Cellphone Addiction

VIDEO – THE NEW CIGARETTES, BUT USEFUL – July 22, 2024 - Almost 50% of Americans are addicted to their cell phones. On average, people check their phones every 12 minutes throughout the day. Whether texting, cal... Read More...

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Warning! Is Google Increasing Your Risk of Dementia?

AI SAYS YES – July 23, 2024 - Thanks to the speed and efficiency of the internet, centuries of knowledge can now be summoned with a simple click of a button - but how the brain acquires information is just as ... Read More...

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Is Social Media the New Smoking?

IT’S ADDICTIVE – July 14, 2024 - The parallels between social media and smoking are striking. Both began as widely accepted societal habits before their negative impacts became apparent. In the same way that s... Read More...

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Kids Struggling With Screen Addiction

GEN THUMB? – July 11, 2024 - Like many teens his age, KJ became consumed by watching TikTok, YouTube, and sometimes Snapchat videos. He especially enjoys watching videos on barbering. On weekends and school ni... Read More...

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Social Media Addiction Among Young People Very Worrisome

GENERATION ILLITERATE? – July 4, 2024 - I am writing this in light of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s op-ed in The New York Times and the recent article published about that op-ed by ABC News. Many current... Read More...

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Should ‘Addictive’ Social Media Be Regulated?

VIDEO – NOT THIS SITE – June 26, 2024 - Dr. Anna Lembke, medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University, explains how constant connection can be harmful and why governments, companies and families sh... Read More...

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45 States Hammer Zuckerberg Over Child Endangerment

THE LOST GENERATION – June 22, 2024 - As one example of Zuckerberg’s decision-making, executive David Ginsberg told him in 2019 citing concern about “areas of problematic use/addiction and teens,” says court r... Read More...

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Telegram Is the ‘go-to app’ for Heroin and Everything Illegal

HOW CONVENIENT – June 27, 2024 - “Nowhere near the standard you expect. Harsh ammonia smell. Very jittery. One star,” writes a disgruntled customer of their $240 Colombian cocaine purchase. Another reviewer re... Read More...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety

LIKE PARENTS? – June 22, 2024 - The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say. States accuse Meta of unfairl... Read More...

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New York To Ban ‘addictive’ Social Media Algorithms for Kids

VIDEO – YOU BOUGHT IT, YOU BROKE THEM – June 7, 2024 - The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids act will prohibit social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram from serving content to users under th... Read More...

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The Hidden Danger of Online Dating

THE INTERNET IS DANGEROUS? – June 4, 2024 - Romance scams affect thousands of people each year. In 2022 alone, nearly 70,000 individuals in the United States reported falling victim to these scams, resulting i... Read More...

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Internet Sober Coach Helps Others

PASSING IT ON – June 6, 2024 - Oden is a sober coach and the East Coast coordinator for the Remote Sober Support Network, a free online program that provides daily virtual meetings for alcohol and drug addicts... Read More...

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How Internet Addiction Affects Your Teen’s Brain

NOT IN A GOOD WAY – June 5, 2024 - A new study has possibly captured that objectively, finding that for teens diagnosed with internet addiction, signaling between brain regions important for controlling attent... Read More...

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Psychiatrist Wants to Make Kids Into ‘Healthy Gamers’

AUDIO – PLEASE DO! – May 14, 2024 - “The challenge with video games is that when we play one game, we don’t just have pleasure in that game,” says psychiatrist Alok Kanojia. “Our brain wants more, and so kids are p... Read More...

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The Most Misunderstood Addiction

LOSING IS ALSO ADDICTIVE – May 14, 2024 - With bright, flashing lights and the rush of excitement with winning, it’s no surprise that gambling leads to a shocking, drugless high. Compulsive gambling, also call... Read More...

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Instagram and Facebook Under Investigation For Causing Children Great Harm

DOES ANYBODY EVEN CARE? – May 16, 2024 - The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Meta over concerns that it isn’t doing enough to safeguard the mental and physical health of children who use ... Read More...

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1400 Clinicians on What’s Driving Youth Mental Health Crisis

iPHONES OR TIKTOK – April 10, 2024 - Many clinicians who work with young patients with mental health issues agree they lack enough resources to treat kids and that patients are worse off now than before the pa... Read More...

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