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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...

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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...

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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...

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Internet Addiction and Sleep Patterns in Children and Adolescents

PILLOW TALKS BACK – July 3, 2025 - The global rise of the Internet and its near constant use by children and adolescents has given rise to concerns on the potential for Internet addiction (IA) and subsequent detrimen... Read More...

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Watching Pornography Often Linked to Impaired Cognitive Performance

DUMBING DOWN MEN – June 17, 2025 - The researchers highlighted that certain patterns of brain activity observed in the high-frequency group resemble those seen in individuals with substance use disorders and ev... Read More...

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Addictive Teen Screen Use Linked to Suicide Risk

NO MORE NATURE? – June 18, 2025 - This study demonstrated that the total amount of time spent on social media, mobile phones and video games was not associated with future suicide-related or mental health outco... Read More...

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16 Billion Login Credentials Leaked Online

Carl Sagan Said It Best – JUNE 20, 2025 - Cybernews researchers have recently discovered 30 exposed datasets that each contain a vast amount of login information — amounting to a total of 16 billion compromised... Read More...

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New App For Gambling Addict’s Recovery

IT HELPS ABSTINENCE – June 13, 2025 - A new version of Connections, the evidence-based recovery support app for people with substance use disorder, has been specifically designed for individuals with problem ga... Read More...

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Facebook Invests $14.3 Billion in Artificial Intelligence

ANYTHING THE BRAIN CAN DO – June 12, 2025 - Superintelligence is a futuristic goal of A.I. development. OpenAI, Google and others have said their immediate aim is to build artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., ... Read More...

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Doctors’ Warning About ‘insidious’ Social Media Trend Damaging Teen Girls

ONLY SKIN DEEP? – June 9, 2925 - “As she’s applying the products, she begins to express discomfort and burning, and in the final few minutes, she develops a visible skin reaction,” said senior study author Dr. ... Read More...

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The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness

SOCIETY’S SICK SECRET? – May 19, 2025 - These days, virality is difficult to achieve. But the British OnlyFans creator Lily Phillips managed it this winter, when she appeared in a documentary titled “I Slept With 100... Read More...

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35% More Kids Depressed From Being on Social Media

We're All Kids – May 21, 2025 - Depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether depressed kids simply spend more time on social media? “There has bee... Read More...

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It’s Time to Start Preparing for AI

OR IS IT TOO LATE? – May 6, 2025 - What are we going to do about it. When I ask people this question, the most common response is a blank stare or a shrug. Oh, tech people understand what’s coming — in fact, th... Read More...

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Facebook & Instagram Bots to Engage in Dirty Sick Sex Chats with Children of All Ages

BAD BOTS – April 27, 2025 - Meta’s AI-powered chatbots on Facebook and Instagram are able to engage in graphic sex talk with users, even children, with the voices of Disney characters and celebrities. AI using the p... Read More...

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A Perfect Family Couldn’t Save Me From The Most Destructive Middle-class Addiction Of All

IT’S THE DOPAMINE – April 8, 2025 - Kate’s family was about discover a devastating secret she’d kept hidden for years - one that was going to turn their financial lives upside down. Grasping for the words to expla... Read More...

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Thinking of Going Boy Sober?

OR WITHOUT WOMEN – April 9, 2025 - Hope deleted all her dating apps and made a promise to herself: No more dates for a year. Then, armed with a catchy new term coined by her sister, Hope started documenti... Read More...

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‘The Social Network’ and Mass Technological Addiction!

RIGHT UP YOUR SPECTRUM – April 9, 2024 - The “new thing” is better, of course. Its creators are gods, but few win enough power to play god. “The Social Network” (2010) depicts just that: the beginning of ... Read More...

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Addiction Hijacks Teenagers’ Brains

FROM GUTTER TO GOOGLE – April 9, 2025 - Addiction is not limited to substances like alcohol and drugs but extends to behaviours such as smartphone use, gaming, gambling and pornography. The essence of addiction is es... Read More...

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Each Hour Your Child Spends On Screens Increases Their Chances of Myopia

EYESIGHT IS ENDANGERED – Feb. 21, 2025 - Myopia is caused by having an over elongated eyeball and is a growing problem, with research suggesting about 40% of children and adolescents worldwide could have the conditio... Read More...

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The War For Your Attention

AUDIO – HOW MANY SCREENS? – Feb. 1, 2025 - A friend of mine once told me that “You are where your attention is.” That line always stuck with me. It was a reminder that the most important choice we all make is a... Read More...

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400,000 Patients Exposed in Hack at American Addiction Centers

NOT SO ANONYMOUS – Dec. 25, 2024 - The breached data may include names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and other identifiers, according to American Addiction Centers. Social securit... Read More...

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Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16

VIDEO – FOR OVER 16 TOO? – Nov. 30, 2024 - The National’s Ian Hanomansing asks tech journalist Carmi Levy to break down how real... Read More...

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‘I watched porn morning, noon and night’

UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS – Nov. 29, 2024 - Shaun Flores was 11 years old when he first started watching porn, after being introduced to it by a friend. “I was hooked almost immediately,” the now 30-year-old says. ... Read More...

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What Happens When a Sober Influencer Relapses?

KEEPS COMING BACK? – Nov. 3, 2024 - Our culture produces influencers for every imaginable product and lifestyle, and recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol is no different. Some sober influencers satirize their... Read More...

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Utah’s Porn Addiction

VIDEO ONLY – AT ARM’S LENGTH – Oct. 31, 2024 - Utah might be considered the anti-pornography capital of the United States, and many locals would likely wear this badge with pride. Utah was the first state to pass a r... Read More...

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Gambling Is Easier and a Global ‘threat to public health’

RISKY BUSINESS – Oct. 25, 2024 - Worldwide, nearly 450 million adults participate in what’s called “risk gambling,” which can impact finances, mental health, relationships and work, according to the report, which was... Read More...

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AI-Powered Exploitive Crimes Exploding

ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE HIGH – Oct. 10, 2024 - The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 38,000 reports about investment scams from January to October, amounting to $4.7 billion in losses. That’s up from 30,000... Read More...

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States Sue TikTok For Harming Youth’s Brains

GET IN LINE – Oct. 8, 2024 - More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is damaging children’s mental health with a produ... Read More...

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The Self-Love Recovery Podcast

VIDEO – LIVE AND LEARN – Sept. 19, 2024 - In this insightful discussion, Ross Rosenberg and Karen McMahon delve into the challen... Read More...

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Mental Health Warning on Social Media Sites?

FRIGHTENING VIDEO – IS IT TOO LATE? – Sept. 11, 2024 - “Social media platforms are designed to addict users—especially our kids —to spend countless hours digging for their algorithmic fix,” Coleman said in a news rel... Read More...

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