The highs, lows and terrible in-betweens of a compulsive sports gambler
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The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link)
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The mysterious life and questionable claims of Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter
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Microsoft, Rockstar, Epic, and others are being sued for using "addictive psychological features" in games like Minecraft, GTA 5, and Fortnite
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Psilocybin therapy alters prefrontal and limbic brain circuitry in alcohol use disorder
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The war on recovery: how the US is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
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For those with an alcohol problem, are non-alcoholic beverages a wise choice?
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New US lawsuit claims dating apps designed to turn love seekers into addicts
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Why we crave – The neuroscientific picture of addiction overlooks the psychological and social factors that make cravings so hard to resist
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Aripiprazole (Abilify and generic brands): risk of pathological gambling
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AAA studios sued for addictive games | Cold Take
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Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege
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China tried to keep kids off social media. Now the elderly are hooked.
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One woman's controversial fight to make America accept drug users for who they are
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Meet the people working three jobs to afford Erewhon
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Denmark is to restrict the sale of alcohol to under-eighteens and increase the price of suckable nicotine sachets, as their growing popularity is worrying health authorities
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Denmark topped a list of worst binge drinkers in a new health report from the OECD – Romania and the UK next worst offenders
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Meta accused by states of using features to lure children to Instagram and Facebook
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Adderall risks: Much more than you wanted to know (2017)
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International research group published an analysis identifying ultra-processed food as addictive
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
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There's hope for the US opioid crisis — but politics stands in the way
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Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
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King County to surpass record fentanyl death toll — with four months left in 2023
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Maryland school district sues social media alleging addictive design rewires young brains
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I was a female alcoholic — my warning to other women as a survivor
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The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe
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Copaganda: What cop shows get wrong about Fentanyl
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Does minimum unit pricing for alcohol cause or prevent harm?
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The hidden toll of military labor on noncitizen soldiers. For immigrants, linking citizenship to using up one’s body and mind exerts an additional pressure to downplay damage and push through pain.
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Finland is the European country with the highest proportion of under 25s dying from drugs
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Tom Sizemore, ‘Heat’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor, dead at 61
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Inside Denmark's opioid crisis – more teens are abusing opioids because they take the pills both to get high and to cope with anxiety
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British Columbia embarks on bold experiment to decriminalize hard drugs - Possession of small amounts of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs will be allowed in Canada’s westernmost province
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European Parliament votes to take action against loot boxes, gaming addiction, gold farming and more
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Nine hard-earned lessons from 365 days of sobriety
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Talk to me about: Impulse control
What is your personal impulse control like? Do you have good impulse control overall? Do you have an addictive personality? Where does it fail? Anything you’re particularly proud or ashamed of?
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Smoking in the United States has reached its lowest levels ever, with just 11% of people saying they now smoke cigarettes
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Allen Carr’s ‘Easy Way’ method helped millions quit smoking, but medicine never took it seriously — until now
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The Deep South’s dames of dildos
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In Australia, slot machines are everywhere. So is gambling addiction.
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How to know if you’re addicted
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Court-ordered into Alcoholics Anonymous? You could use The Satanic Temple instead
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Jesse Stewart sang to millions on YouTube. He died on the streets of Edmonton.
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The new meth: Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem
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Facebook banned someone for developing a Chrome extension designed to reduce its addictiveness
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China’s regulators said to slow their approval of new online games, as Beijing’s campaign against gaming addiction heats up
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The invisible addiction: Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.
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America has a drinking problem
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