Five Ways to Avoid a News Addiction PLEASE DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE – Sept. 9, 2020 - It’s normal to want to know what’s going on in the world around us. That said, there is 24/7 access to news on the TV and our phones. Much of the news that is ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 13 2022Smartphone Addiction
Facebook Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children’s Data HOW LOW WILL THEY GO? – Sept. 5, 2022 - Policymakers are attempting to better safeguard children’s data generated on social media, online video games and other internet services. California lawmakers last week ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 13 2022Smartphone AddictionTrauma
Program Helping Youth to Detox From Technology Addiction THE 11th COMMANDMENT – Spring 2022 - I’m in my room consistently. “I just want to be left alone on my iPad and it makes me moody and angry for some reason.” Kokoda Youth Foundation CEO Johllene Elson said, “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 23 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionRecoveryRehabSmartphone Addictionteenagers
California Social Media Addiction Bill Drops Parent Lawsuit WHO’S MINDING THE KIDS? – July 14, 2022 - “They get afraid it will open the floodgates to frivolous claims,” Cunningham said. “They seem to be more comfortable letting this be handled by the public prosecutors... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJuly 19 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Inside the Mind of an Addict VERY BUSY – July 4, 2022 - The concept of self-reinforcement shows how the first experience with drugs, sex, cigarettes or alcohol can lead to the second. It takes a memory of the experience as being at least p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderfood addictionGamingHeroin AddictioninterventionJuly 12 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapseSexual AddictionSmartphone Addiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phone Addiction Calling? ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? – April 5, 2022 - The use of cell phones has become an integral part of society. While cell phones have many benefits, many people have developed what some researchers consider an addicti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 12 2022cell phoneinterventionMental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
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
Why is There a Mental-Health Crisis Among American Children? SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN – Mar. 23, 2022 - Last June, researchers from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine documented six unusual cases in the journal Movement Disorders. The subjects wer... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionlonelinessMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
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
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
Biden Blames Social Media For ‘Mental Health Crisis’ ALGORITHMS ARE THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL – Mar. 1, 2022 - Biden wants to “stop discriminatory algorithmic decision-making that limits opportunities for young Americans,” the White House said. “When a girl sea... Read More...Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCoronavirusinternetinterventionMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
Gambling Addictions Rise After Legalization of Mobile Sports Betting THE ADDICTION THAT LOVES SUICIDE – Feb. 27, 2022 - Delaney is one of 4.3% of adult residents in New York who are having problems related to their gambling, according to the New York Council on Problem Gambling.... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneGaminginternetMarch 8 2022Mental HealthSmartphone AddictionSuper Bowlvideo games
Snapchat Promises New Rules to Fight Drug Sales IT’S ABOUT TIME – Feb. 24, 2022 - Snapchat says it’s making changes to make it harder for kids to buy drugs on its platform, and it has to do with how “friends” are recommended on the app. An NBC News inves... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinternetinterventionMarch 1 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
Signs of Porn Addiction and When to Get Help AUDIO – POWERFUL – Feb. 12, 2022 - “At this point in time, there is no recognized diagnosis of ‘pornography addiction,’ and there is no evidence that pornography is inherently ‘addictive’,” Joshua Grubbs, asso... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 22 2022internetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabSexual AddictionSmartphone Addiction
Addiction to Approval is Toxic for Your Mental Health PLEASE, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE – Feb. 5, 2022 - While you may crave approval, it’s important to remember that another person’s opinions are just that — someone’s highly subjective, personal opinions. Their input may... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFeb 15 2022internetinterventionMental HealthSmartphone Addiction