Tag archive: addiction

If you've been smoking marijuana like a cigarette lately, you might want to cut back on your Facebook time. The National Center on Addiction and Substances Abuse at Columbia has released a study indicating that the more time teenagers spend social networking on sites like Facebook and Google+, the more likely they are to drink, smoke, and use drugs.  According to IB Times, roughly 70 percent of the 1,037 teenagers studied spent time on… Read More

“I was itching, like a crackhead, because I could not use my phone.” That's how one college student described an attempt to go 24 hours without accessing any sort of electronic media. The student was one of a 1,000 college students who, as part of an international study, were voluntarily attempting to abstain from media for a full day and then record their experiences. The trial was conducted by the University of… Read More

Forget fast food, video games and reality TV. The worst plague sweeping the world these days is smartphone addiction. You’ve seen the worst affected skittering in alleyways, awake in bed at night, and in movie theaters, with the glow of backlit LCDs lighting up their maniacal faces. They’re addicts. Any you may be one of them. Think you it may be more than a slight affinity for texting? Here are the top ten signs you’re addicted to your… Read More

At its annual meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association rejected a proposal to formalize video game addiction as a mental disorder in the American Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) used by the American Psychiatric Association. The move has been generally welcomed by the gaming industry and community, although few would deny that a handful of players do become obsessively involved in video games and may… Read More