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Almost 40% of university students surveyed are addicted to their phones

A team of researchers at King’s College London has found that nearly 40% of students surveyed exhibited symptoms of addiction to their smartphone. In their paper published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the researchers describe their study and what they found. Smartphones have become pervasive in virtually all advanced societies around the world. And as features […]

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I was addicted to prescription drugs for two decades

Content warning: this article discusses drug addiction I’ll never forget the first time I took codeine. It gave me a warm feeling, as if I was floating on a pink fluffy cloud, and all my troubles and worries melted away. This week, Public Health England announced fears that a large number of people who are […]

Kids Health

I'm Addicted to Buying My Kids Retro Toys on eBay

Mattel is revamping tiny ’90s toy favorite Polly Pocket and bringing her to a brand-new audience next month. I was excited to hear about this after dropping a nice chunk of change on eBay procuring “vintage” early-’90s Polly compacts for my 5-year-old daughter’s birthday. There’s something so satisfying about gifting my kids toys from my […]