16 hours on social media is an 'addiction' – but you're not far off

A young woman in the US stood up in court and said she spent 16 hours a day on Instagram. It’s a hefty figure, yet a closer ...
E! Online

Lamar Odom Shares Update on Sobriety Journey After DUI Arrest

Lamar Odom, who was arrested and charged with a DUI in January, explained how he became “completely sober” during his battle ...
The Source Magazine

Boosie Speaks On Trying To Get His Son Off Lean: “He’s Just Like I Used To Be”

Baton Rouge rap vet Boosie Badazz is once again speaking candidly about family struggles, this time opening up about his efforts to help his son break an addiction to promethazine codeine syrup, ...
The Washington Post

Your social media ‘addiction’ is overrated

Ian Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Wendy Wood is professor emerita of psychology and business at the University of Southern California. You’re ...
STAT

Trump’s addiction initiative brings bold rhetoric but few details

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The White House on Thursday unveiled a new effort to streamline the country’s response to its drug and alcohol epidemic, pledging to align ...
National Geographic news

GLP-1s don’t just quell addiction cravings. They stop them from forming in the first place.

This revelation could cut addiction-related deaths by 50 percent. As scientists unravel the link between GLP-1 medications and addiction, it may hold clues for the development a drug that can treat ...
Engadget

Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a thing'

In this photo illustration, a Meta logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (SOPA Images via Getty Images) Meta went ...
The Conversation

Addiction affects your brain as well as your body – that’s why detoxing is just the first stage of recovery

Emma Fenske, DO does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
CNBC

Instagram chief likens social media addiction to being hooked on a Netflix show in trial testimony

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that there can be problematic usage of social media, but he disagreed that it constitutes an addiction. Mosseri testified in Los Angeles Superior Court during a social ...
The New Yorker

Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?

Mary started drinking regularly in the early nineties, when she was thirteen. Her father had recently married a Danish woman and moved the family to Denmark, which has one of the highest teen-drinking ...
The Hill

RFK Jr.: ‘Fragmented’ addiction treatment system ‘has not worked in this country’

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday touted a new $100 million effort to fight opioid addiction highlighting the country’s “fragmented” system for ...