addiction
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"So Divine now has to prove you can remove some of the addiction without removing the magic."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Meta lost a social media addiction case in Los Angeles and another child safety case in New Mexico this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
While cases about social media harms revolve around the intersection of technology and addiction, the case against Meta focuses on its business practices, similar to when US regulators sued tobacco companies, Joralemon said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Mr. Bockino nods at the risks of addiction and corruption, but he all but ignores the threat to the experience of fandom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Yale paper notes that the word addiction derives from the Latin addicere, which translates to “enslaved to” or “bound by.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Compared with chemical dependencies, which have been well understood since before the first DSM was compiled in 1952, the framework for describing so-called behavioral addictions is extremely new, he and others said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Ask the average person what homelessness looks like in America, and the answer invariably involves urban encampments—people with severe mental disabilities or serious addictions living in tents and squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
For people with compulsive disorders, addictions, or anxiety, these learned associations can become overly powerful.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 26, 2025
Early versions of aversion therapy were first trialled on animals and then on humans for conditions such as phobias, compulsions, and addictions, for example, using mild shocks to reduce nail-biting or gambling.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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