addiction
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Apple also touted its parental controls as tech companies face increasing pressure worldwide on child safety and screen addiction.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Homelessness can cause mental illness, and mental illness can cause addiction, and vice versa.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The findings suggest that GLP-1 medications may act on a shared biological pathway underlying multiple forms of addiction.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
“Thank you, God, he’s through his addiction, and he has a new life,” she says of Hunter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 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
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