Using AI to Identify Key Factors in Addiction Recovery CHAT WITH A LAPTOP – Mar. 27, 2026 - “It would have been virtually impossible to analyze so many treatment records without AI/ML assistance,” Becker said. Based on the findings, Becker recommends that state govern... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetMar 31 2026
Research Says Companies Could Make Social Media Less Addictive BUT WILL THEY? – Mar. 27, 2026 - Two court verdicts this week spotlight the risks for teens from using social media — focusing on not just the content but the design of the platforms. A California jury held Google... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMar 31 2026Smartphone Addiction
Parents of Social Media Victims After Trial: ‘This is not over’ INSTA-DANGER ZONE – Mar. 25, 2026 - “This is not over — we know this is a long game,” said Juliana Arnold, the mother of 17-year-old Coco, who died in 2022 of fentanyl poisoning after trying to buy Percocet on social... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFacebookinternetMar 31 2026Smartphone Addiction
Meta and YouTube Guilty META VERDICT – March 25, 2026 - Meta misled users about the safety of its social apps when it comes to children being targeted by online predators. A day later, a jury in L.A. ruled against Meta and Google’s YouTube ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFacebookinternetMar 31 2026Mental HealthSmartphone AddictionTikTokTrauma
Rehab Facility That Treats Tech Addiction Like Heroin BETTER GET MORE BEDS – Mar. 24, 2026 - At age six, Sarah Hill was handed her first iPad by her parents, which she used to play games like Angry Birds and Minecraft whenever she was bored. By age 21, the Alabama nativ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFacebookinternetinterventionMar 31 2026Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionTikTok
Lawyers Deliver Closing Arguments in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial Face BOOKED – Mar. 12, 2026 - After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, 12 jurors are listening to closing arguments before decid... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMar 17 2026Mental HealthSmartphone AddictionteenagersTikTok
When the Machines Don’t Sleep: Tech Burnout in the Age of AI WHY SLEEP? – Mar. 5, 2026 - “I am burnt out. All the mental health deteriorating that I used to scoff at is real, miserable, scary, and dangerous.” When OpenAI researcher Hieu Pham shared those words while s... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetMar 10 2026Mental Health
I Turned AI Into My Therapist AI Therapist – March 4, 2026 - I’m using ChatGPT as a therapist. Nothing says “modern mental health” like crying into a chatbox, after all. Plenty of people are now doing the same – but can it really replace human su... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionMar 10 2026Mental Health
‘Dopamine Kids’ Why Children Crave Screens WHY DO WE? – Mar. 6, 2026 - Rosy didn’t love her videos, Doucleff realized. Nor did she love the ultraprocessed Ritz crackers she begged for at the grocery store. Rosy was caught in a wanting feedback loop. The more ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMar 10 2026Smartphone Addiction
Red Flags You’re Hooked On Your Phone! How ‘dopamine fasting’ Can Help YOU HAVE A MESSAGE – Feb. 5, 2026 - Dr. Anna Lembke is a Stanford professor of psychiatry who specializes in addiction. Just a few more minutes on Instagram, X, or TikTok turns into hours of doomscrolling, no matter... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFeb 24 2026internetinterventionSmartphone Addiction
A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial TICK TOCK DIE – Feb. 6, 2026 - ANNALEE SCHOTT USED to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorit... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFeb 17 2026internetMental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Social Media Addiction’s Surprising Challenger? ANTI-SCROLLER – Jan. 17, 2026 - It’s simple to accidentally become entranced by an endless loop of videos on Instagram or TikTok. But sometimes, that mindless scroll is interrupted by a reminder that what you thought... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFeb 03 2026internetSmartphone Addiction
How Big Pharma Mixed Addiction With Social Justice A TOXIC COMBINATION – Jan. 9, 2025 - One of America’s most infamous corporate characters just made its final curtain call. The $7 billion bankruptcy deal approved over the holidays for Purdue Pharma and its billionai... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetJan 20 2026Purdue Pharma
He trusted ChatGPT for drug advice then died of an overdose AUDIO – INTERNET KILLS – Jan. 5, 2025 - On a Sunday two years ago, Sam Nelson opened up ChatGPT and started typing. Naturally, for an 18-year-old on the verge of college, he decided to ask for advice about drugs. “Ho... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJan 13 2026OverdoseSmartphone AddictionTrauma
I Killed the Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me RELIEVES ADDICTION – Dec. 25, 2025 - The moment I switched, I no longer felt an urgent need to look at my iPhone — an urge that I hadn’t known was so strong until it was gone. I experienced a full- bodied sense of re... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 30 2025internetSmartphone Addiction
Millions of children and teens face Social Media Ban ABOUT TIME – December 9, 2025 - Australia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for users aged under 16, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts. Facebook, Instagram, Th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 16 2025internetSmartphone Addictionteenagers
Children With Phones at 12 Risk Serious Health Problems BRAIN DISTORTIONS? – Dec. 1, 2025 - The study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics found that owning a smartphone during early adolescence is associated with increased risks of mental health issue... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 09 2025internetinterventionMental HealthSmartphone Addictionteenagers
What Snapchat Knows About Addicted Users LOCK THEM UP – Dec. 3, 2025 - Nearly two thirds of 13 to 17-year-olds in the UK have a Snapchat profile. And the company claims it has nearly a billion monthly active users. The documents we found show that some u... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 09 2025internetSmartphone Addiction
TikTok & Instagram Content “ROTS” Your Brain THROUGH AND THROUGH – Nov. 20, 2025 - Short-form video has reshaped how people consume content online, and a new report from the American Psychological Association now directly connects that format with notable decli... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 02 2025internetMental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Lawsuit Says Social Media Giants Knew They Harmed Teen’s Mental Health MAKES MARLBORO LOOK JUDICIOUS – Nov. 26, 2025 - Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know exactly how addictive their platforms can be to teens. And they continue to target teen users anyway. “IG (Instagram) is a drug ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 02 2025internetMental HealthSmartphone AddictionteenagersTikTok
Is Sports Gambling the New Cocaine? FOUL LINES – Nov. 21, 2025 - The world of professional athletes is populated by hyper-competitive people who love sports, many with plenty of disposable income. Charles Barkley, former NBA star, has openly admitted l... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 02 2025GaminginternetSuper Bowl
Tech Addicts Anonymous Saving Lives UNPLUG NOW – Nov. 12, 2025 - She had a burgeoning internet and technology addiction that drove her to contemplate suicide. Lauren says, she’d scroll for hours on end. She didn’t take care of her apartment, which b... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetNov 18 2025
Psychologist Harris Stratyner Ph.D Discusses Gambling and Sports Betting ALL IN – Nov. 11, 2025 - Betting: today’s sports gamblers can bet on much more than just the winner of a game. Sports gamblers can bet — during the game — on hundreds and potentially thousands of discrete events. Any... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetNov 18 2025Super Bowl
ChatGPT Is Driving Users Into Psychosis CHAT THIS – Oct. 4, 2025 - A former OpenAI safety researcher is horrified with how ChatGPT keeps causing disturbing episode of “AI psychosis” — the term that psychiatrists are using to describe mental health crises w... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMental HealthOct 14 2025
Meta Exposé Author Faces Bankruptcy For Criticizing Company SEE NO EVIL - HEAR NO EVIL - WRITE TRUTH – Sept. 21, 2025 - Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, after her decisio... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetSept 30 2025
What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life SAD TRUTHS – Aug. 17, 2025 - Sophie was hilarious and it was almost never at someone else’s expense. She had the alchemical ability to make people laugh while building them up. It’s so difficult in this world to be a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 26 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetSmartphone AddictionsuicideteenagersTrauma
Unflinching Account of Gambling Addiction ALL IN – July 24, 2025 - Rose E. Tolleson, an 85-year-old grandmother and Arkansas native, has courageously shared her deeply personal journey through gambling addiction in her new memoir, “My Battle With Gambling Ad... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 05 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternet
Addiction in the Age of Anonymity DOES PORN MATTER? – July 13, 2025 - One key driver of this trend is the shifting perception that consuming pornography is socially acceptable. In contemporary society, drug addiction is still viewed as the most serio... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetJuly 22 2025Sexual AddictionSmartphone Addiction
Children’s Screen Addiction Linked to Mental Decline VIDEO – SAD FACETIME – July 2, 2025 - 13News chatted with Jennie Voelker, a licensed clinical social worker with Community Health Network, on how to navigate screen time with our kids. CONTINUE@YouTube h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJuly 15 2025Mental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Teens With ‘addictive’ Screen Habits More Likely to Be Suicidal DEADLY SERIOUS – June 19, 2025 - JAMA Network looked at data from over 4,000 children starting at 9 or 10 years old. The study followed these children for years and found that, by the age of 14: Around a third of ... Read More...Addiction Recoverycell phoneinternetJuly 08 2025Smartphone Addictionsuicideteenagers