addiction

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So does a device that repeatedly travels to a church, a mosque, a union office, a bar at 1 a.m., a political protest, an addiction treatment center, or someone else’s apartment late at night.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

Through her work she has seen that "experiences in early childhood are often the root cause of today's hardest social challenges, such as addiction, family breakdown, poor mental health, suicide and homelessness," the foundation says.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

One recovering gambling addict who now volunteers for a gambling support helpline said people seeking help for addiction to prize draws and competitions was "definitely on the increase".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

“YouTube is not a social-media site,” a spokesman for the video platform’s parent company said last month after it lost a major trial focused on social-media addiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

In the case of technology, phone use or Internet addiction, he says he hears lots of versions of a story in which someone loses the phone for a day, or the power goes out.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel