How Gambling Addiction Has Affected Younger Generation BETTER MATH SKILLS? – July 4, 2022 - Joe was 13 when he started gambling with friends. In college, he became a bookie. “People would text me their bets. I kept a spreadsheet,” he said. “There were many Mondays... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneGaminginternetJuly 12 2022Mental HealthRecoverySuper Bowlvideo games
Are Smartphones Making Kids Dumb? JUST CALL THEM DIGITAL DRUGS – June 29, 2022 - I am a dad of two teenage sons, the only ones in their respective grades without smartphones. Their images — and “cool factor” — take hits because I won’t let the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJuly 5 2022Mental HealthSmartphone Addictionteenagers
Beyond Belief Sobriety w/Author of HIGH! – Confessions of a Cannabis Addict VIDEO – IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD(S) – June 2022 - Things could have played out very differently for Leonard Lee Buschel. A powerful combo of early-childhood trauma, temperament, a “professional” opportuni... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Guilty Displeasure: Time to Take Porn Addiction In Hand ADVICE COLUMN – June 11, 2022 - I also realise my past relationships were also disastrous. As I engaged in sexual activities, I began to realise I was keen on porn and sometimes had difficuty maintaining an er... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionJune 21 2022Mental HealthRecoverySexual Addiction
The Pandemic Surge In Pornography Addiction VISUALS OVERLOAD – June 15, 2022 - Though Martinez-Herbert didn’t quite understand what was going on, the acts she saw for the first time were appealing enough to launch an addiction that today, at age 24, she’... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionJune 21 2022Mental HealthRecoverySexual Addiction
19-Year-Old TikToker Cooper Noriega Has Died SO MUCH POTENTIAL – June 13, 2022 - Model and social media influencer Cooper Noriega, who obtained 2.8 million TikTok and 599,000 Instagram followers with a series of posts exploring his day-to-day life in Los ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetJune 21 2022life expectancySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
Is Your Pursuit of Wealth Unhealthy? MONEY MONEY MONEY – May 31, 2022 - Psychologists often classify the preoccupation with wealth as a “process addiction,” a category that also includes a fixation on gambling, sex, or even exercise (though the ps... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetJune 7 2022Mental HealthRecovery
California Parents Could Sue For Social Media Addiction GOOD LUCK – May 24, 2022 - Business groups have warned that if the bill passes, social media companies would most likely cease operations for children in California rather than face the legal risk. The propo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMay 31 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addictionteenagersvideo games
Hello, Sobriety Influencers. Goodbye, Alcoholics Anonymous? NOT IN THIS CENTURY – June 2, 2022 - Americans are drinking less, and the ones that are looking to quit altogether have new models by which to fashion their sobriety. Virginia Heffernan is a contributor at Wire... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinternetinterventionMay 31 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Facebook Posts May Reveal Individuals at Risk for Alcoholism AI Knows Everything – May 19, 2022 - “What people write on social media and online offers a window into psychological mechanisms that are difficult to capture in research or medicine otherwise,” says Schwartz, ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionMay 24 2022Recovery
Paulo O’Brien talks with Leonard Buschel about his book, HIGH: Confessions of a Cannabis Addict VIDEO – ADDICTS’ LIVES MATTER – 2022 - Leonard Buschel is the author of the new book, HIGH: Confessions of a Cannabis Addict. He is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, and he is the founder of Writers ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelMay 17 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
TikTok Addiction? Here Are The Signs! YOU ARE READING THIS ARTICLE – May 6, 2022 - Sometimes the TikTok algorithm shows us things we like, sometimes it doesn’t. Every time we see something we like, our brain produces a little hit of dopamine. This... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMay 10 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
The Shame Industrial Complex: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation MEDIA: BOOK REVIEW – April 26, 2022 - Weinstein’s incarceration followed a decades-long career of abuse, and is inextricably linked to the launch of the #MeToo movement, when women publicly named their powerful... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetMay 10 2022Mental HealthTrauma
Breaking the Misconceptions of Sobriety AUDIO – ROSECRANCE PRODUCED – April 27, 2022 - Tune in while Rosecrance’s Director of Alumni Relations Colleen Fry and Paul Gilmet who is the Director of Access at Rosecrance’s Lakeview Campus join WGN’s John ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Worried about your kids’ screen time? Check your own first. SCROLLING NOT STROLLING – April 29, 2022 - Experts have been studying the effects of smartphones on parents for almost as long as we’ve had phones to distract us from our kids. And the evidence, according to se... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
The Dark Side of Life Trading Crypto INSOMNIA, ADDICTION, DEPRESSION, OH MY – April 28, 2022 - Therapists, such as Aaron Sternlicht of New York, say they are seeing an influx of people seeking help for crypto addiction, though treatment is availa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionGaminginternetinterventionMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Family Suing Social Media over Son’s Suicide VIDEO ONLY – EVIL ON THE SMALL SCREEN – April 27, 2022 - “When we found him, his phone was still on-still in his hand”, explained CJ Dawleys’ mother. She continued, “He was so addicted to his phone... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetlife expectancyMay 3 2022Mental HealthSmartphone AddictionsuicideteenagersTrauma
How to Find the Right Mental Health App COME ON GET APPY – April 13, 2022 - These apps claim to help with issues as varied as addiction, sleeplessness, anxiety and schizophrenia, often by using tools like games, therapy chatbots or mood-tracking dia... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 19 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Instagram and Snapchat Addiction Allegedly Led to 17-Year-Old Boy’s Suicide MEDIA OVERDOSE DEATH – April 12, 2022 - The suit, shared with Gizmodo and filed on behalf of Wisconsin teen Christopher J. Dawley by the Social Media Victim Law Center, seeks to hold the two companies accounta... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 19 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressioninternetinterventionMental HealthSmartphone AddictionsuicideteenagersTrauma
How Everyone Got So Lonely THE PALE BLUE DOT – April 11, 2022 - She cites many factors that have contributed to this dystopian moment—among them, smartphones, the gig economy, the contactless economy, the growth of cities, the rise in si... Read More...April 12 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCoronavirusinternetinterventionlife expectancyMental HealthSexual AddictionSmartphone AddictionTrauma
Teens Talk Social Media and Body Image A REFLECTION OF THE TIMES – Mar. 31, 2022 - As we regularly do when The Times writes about an issue that touches the lives of young people, we used our daily Student Opinion forum to ask teenagers to share the... Read More...April 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating DisorderinternetinterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
Can Technology Reduce Substance Abuse? PHONING IT IN – March 31, 2022 - UCF clinical psychologist and Professor Lidia Meshesha works tirelessly to help improve the lives of people afflicted by addiction. She knows from previous studies, that many... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSmartphone Addiction
‘Water by the Spoonful’ Weaves a Web of Addiction & Internet VIDEO – GO SEE A PLAY, ANY PLAY – March 30, 2022 - What the playwright lacks in tech savvy, she makes up for in her portrayal of a Latinx family from Philly. The play’s strongest moments are when cousins Elliot... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetMental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Addiction: It’s Not Just About Drugs Anymore ADDICTED TO EVERYTHING – Mar. 23, 2022 - The parents of a 13-year-old middle school student brought their son to a counselor of my acquaintance. “He spends all of his time after school—night after night—p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfood addictionGaminginternetinterventionMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabSmartphone AddictionSuper Bowlvideo games
Making Peace With Your Body IT STARTS RIGHT NOW – Mar. 18, 2022 - How long would it be, I wondered, until they would be repeating some version of this refrain? Just moments before, I had listened to a whole different storyline unfold. Tw... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionEating Disorderfood addictioninternetinterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabSmartphone AddictionTrauma
Startups push ADHD meds through APP ads PAGING DR. TIKTOK – Mar. 13, 2022 - Combined with other social media posts and sketchy Google search results, the proliferation of drug ads on TikTok can convince kids to diagnose themselves with conditions th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionTrauma
TikTok Leaves Teens Thinking They Have Mental Illness CRAZY – Dec. 26, 2021 - “We have to convince these kids to release their self-diagnoses but when they leave us they go right back into that TikTok community which reinforces their beliefs,” said Don Grant, exec... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phonedepressioninternetinterventionMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
TikTokers are Redefining What It Means to Get Sober SOBER IN SECONDS – Mar. 7, 2022 - I love the phrase “sober curious,” because it centers curiosity — something that feels more organic and accessible than hard-and-fast rules that sobriety has historically been... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Artist Predicted Social Media Addiction 50 Years Ago NOW HE TELLS US! – Mar. 8, 2022 - Audiences are consumers & subjects of mass media As an internationally taught artist, Paik spent a considerable amount of time in various countries, observing t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addictionvideo games
Does My Kid Have a Tech Addiction? DO YOU? – Feb. 28, 2022 - In her book “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” Dr. Anna Lembke makes the case for how technology, with its promise of nonstop engagement and flashing lights, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneGaminginternetinterventionMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction