With the pressures of the holidays, rising COVID-19 rates and social isolation, people can easily fall into addictive-like behaviours. Here are some ways to challenge ourselves and family.
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Clinically speaking, you can't become addicted to a device, but you can develop behavioural addictions to smartphone functions.
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More Americans died from drug overdose in 2014 than any year on record and six in 10 of those involved opioids. How did we get here and what to do about it?
College students who take stimulants such as Adderall to get an academic edge might be setting themselves up unknowingly to a vicious cycle of substance abuse and addiction.
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Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Educational Studies in Psychology, University of Calgary
