addiction
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Rather than go to therapy, it’s said, men would sooner do … pretty much anything: start a war, read every book about ancient Rome, develop a Polymarket addiction, become a Marvel adult.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a primary care doctor and addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says the 7-OH patients they are treating can require high doses of buprenorphine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Some of the harms included depression, anxiety, addiction and body image issues as young people compare themselves to others on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
McCusker founded a soup kitchen in north Belfast in 2017 and regularly campaigns on issues regarding homelessness, poverty and addiction.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
These days, the habit has become an addiction: we are hooked on living; the tenacity of its grip on us, and ours on it, grows in intensity.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Your letter references how financial pressures, emotional turmoil, challenging workplace situations, addictions and mental-health challenges all play a role in how people deal with stressful situations.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Zaheen said she did not think addictions were changing, but instead "we just have the means and desire to talk more openly and honestly about these behaviours".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
Mr. Pratt has recorded cute social-media videos with dogs, promising to overhaul the city’s dysfunctional shelter system and to require vagrants to get treatment for mental health illnesses and addictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
We heard warnings about black clothes and white makeup, Goth music, computer addictions.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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