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...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetSmartphone Addiction
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetJuly 16 2024Mental HealthSmartphone Addictionteenagers
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJuly 9 2024Smartphone Addiction
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...Addiction Recoverycell phoneinternetinterventionJuly 2 2024Smartphone Addiction
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetJuly 2 2024Smartphone Addictionteenagers
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...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninternetJuly 2 2024
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJune 25 2024Mental HealthSmartphone Addiction
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetJune 18 2024Smartphone Addiction
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJune 11 2024Smartphone Addiction
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetJune 11 2024RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetJune 11 2024Mental HealthSmartphone Addictionteenagers
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetinterventionMay 21 2024video games
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetinterventionMay 21 2024Mental HealthRecoveryvideo games
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMay 21 2024Smartphone Addiction
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...Addiction RecoveryApril 23 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMental HealthSmartphone AddictionteenagersTikTokTrauma
Residents Concerned Over 5G Towers VIDEO – DANGER IN THE AIR – April 10, 2024 - She quickly learned that the concrete slab was a 5G tower. It has a health warning that reads it “can cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm.”“I’m ... Read More...April 23 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionSmartphone AddictionTrauma
Social Media Expert Hears ‘wake-up call’ on Youth Screen Addiction VIDEO – PLEASE KEEP SCROLLING – April 7, 2024 - “I started as a voice in the wilderness about eight, nine years ago, saying that digital media can be addicting. But that was just the price of admission. Digital med... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 16 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionSmartphone Addictionvideo games
96% of Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta and Data brokers HIPPA THIS – April 11, 2024 - Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency ... Read More...April 16 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediainternetintervention
Time to Fight Digital Addiction in Kids OR IS IT TOO LATE? – March 30, 2024 - American kids are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis that is driven, in large part, by how much of their day is spent online. The numbers are horrifying: r... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 9 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMental HealthSmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids SOUL DAMAGE – March 31, 2024 - “We’ve never seen anything like this. There’s massive evidence of harm,” Jonathan Haidt says. “It happened in many countries at the same time, at a specific point in time: the mo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 9 2024cell phoneinternetinterventionMental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Screen Time Addiction Needs to be Dealt with NOW DISTRACTIONS FROM ONESELF – April 1, 2024 - Getting addicted is the most logical thing for the brain to do. Sure, accomplishing a goal such as finishing an economics chapter, or going to the gym, would release... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 9 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Who Do You Blame When Kids Are Addicted to Their iPhones? THEY LOOK SO HAPPY...AND INSANE – March 30, 2024 - What the author is implying is that we parents need to start acting differently. Our kids’ reliance on mobile devices to pass the time starts long before high... Read More...April 9 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionSmartphone Addiction
Psychiatrists Detail Harrowing Case of Internet-Induced Erotomania YOU MEAN GLORIA FROM MODERN FAMILY ISN’T AVAILABLE? – March 28, 2024 - Erotomania manifests as a persistent, delusional belief that an individual, typically of higher social status, is in love with the person experie... Read More...April 2 2024Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Screens Poison Kids’ Minds HIJACKED BRAINS – March 22, 2024 - Teenagers are inundated with notifications, with one study estimating they get 237 pings a day. “Smartphones and social media fundamentally changed the way teens spend their ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMar 26 2024Mental HealthSmartphone Addiction
How widespread is Gambling Addiction in the U.S.? POINT SPREADS ARE SEXY – March 23, 2024 - The firing of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter and close friend after allegations of illegal gambling and theft from the Japanese baseball player i... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetinterventionMar 26 2024Super Bowlvideo games
Kids’ Phone-Based Existence InHuman CHILDHOOD CANCELED – March 21, 2024 - “Suppose that when your first child turned ten, a visionary billionaire whom you’ve never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars … Would you let her g... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMar 26 2024Mental HealthSmartphone Addictionteenagers
Life Without TikTok INDIA BLOCKS TikTok – March 15, 2024 - What happened when the world’s most populous nation turned off TikTok. In June 2020, after a violent clash on the India-China border that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMar 19 2024Smartphone Addiction
U.S. House Votes Next Week on TikTok Ban BAN THIS! – March 7, 2024 - A powerful House committee advanced a bill on Thursday that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok on all electronic devices, renewing lawmakers’ challenge to one of the world... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMar 12 2024Smartphone Addiction
Rex Chapman: The ‘Other Side’ of Drug and Gambling Addiction IS PEACE OF MIND – Feb. 20, 2024 - After what he described as a routine surgery, Chapman developed an opioid addiction and, at one point, was taking up to 50 painkillers a day. He says the drug addiction was a gat... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionGaminginternetinterventionInterviewMar 5 2024RecoveryRehab
Lured In: Understanding and Overcoming Gambling Addiction in Youth IT’S A LONG SHOT – Feb. 26, 2024 - “Sports betting used to be taboo, now it’s openly promoted and easily accessible through phones,” says Dr. Louise Stanger, an interventionist and gambling addiction expert. “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetinterventionMar 5 2024teenagersvideo games