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Britain's Got Talent's Ian Royce on sex addiction and alcoholism

The compère, who has also worked on X Factor, entered rehab last month after celebrities including Simon Cowell and Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly helped pay towards his treatment.




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'Cyber Love Making Addiction' Affects Personal And Official Life

Sex, the so called taboo has lighted the fire of curiosity in both men and women, despite being a child, youngster or oldie. With the advent of technology and internet, people now a days are satisfied with virtual life over real




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Are You Getting Into Lovemaking Addiction?

Are you in love with a love addict? There are nymphomaniacs who always have a thirst for lovemaking. Lovemaking addiction means lack or loss of control over orgasm. This situation can develop from various behavior and attitude towards love and orgasm.Lovemaking




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Social Media Addiction

I remember a time before Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, emojis, instant messaging and memes. I remember when my friends used to ride their bikes passed my home to see if I was there -- now, we always know where everyone is. Sometimes because it is self-reported (on a social media platform) but also because we can send them a quick text.

So the term digital native is a little too loose for me, the date range is too baggy around the sides.

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Social Media Addiction

Is social media addiction a real thing? Experts say yes, and they are seeing more and more people suffering from it.

The number of likes on Instagram. The comments you get on your Facebook post. If it seems, you can't get away from social media. You could have a problem.

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These Personality Traits Could Put You At Risk for Social Media Addiction

According to a new study, people with certain personality traits are more likely to develop a social media addiction.

The study found that three personality traits in particular — neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness — were related to social media addiction. Two other personality traits, extraversion and openness to experience, were not linked with social media addiction.

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Excessive Social Media use Comparable to Drug Addiction

Excessive social media use has negative consequences that include the kind of risky decision-making associated with drug and gambling addicts, new research shows.  

Researchers at Michigan State University had 71 study participants take a survey gauging their Facebook dependence; it included questions about users feelings when unable to access the website, the influence Facebook has had on a users job or education, and attempts to quit.  

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The Numbers Don't Lie: America's Got a Gun Addiction

America’s gun addiction is bad. But to understand just how bad it is, you’ve got to see the numbers.




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Meet The Clever Robot That's Ready to Take On Your Shopping Addiction

Robots are historically pretty bad at picking things up. But that's changing thanks to startups like Kindred, which is mixing advanced AI with remote controls to create robots that can pick and sort through objects at dizzying rates.




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How to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence / Michael Pollan

Hayden Library - RM324.8.P65 2018




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Sugar addiction is key contributor to heart disease, cancer risk




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Treat food addiction to combat obesity epidemic




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Transfer addiction: Off drugs, onto cupcakes




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Podcast: Treating cocaine addiction, mirror molecules in space, and new insight into autism

Listen to stories on the first mirror image molecule spotted in outer space, looking at the role of touch in the development of autism, and grafting on lab-built bones, with online news editor David Grimm.   Karen Ersche talks about why cocaine addiction is so hard to treat and what we can learn by bringing addicted subjects into the lab with host Sarah Crespi.   [Image: Science/Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Big Pharma's addiction to profit

Book review of PHARMA: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America




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Addiction debates : hot topics from policy to practice / Catherine Comiskey.

Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publishing, 2019




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Youth gambling [electronic resource] : the hidden addiction / edited by Jeffrey Derevensky, Daniel T.L. Shek, and Joav Merrick





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Re-thinking addiction treatment




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The age of addiction: how bad habits became big business / David T. Courtwright

Barker Library - RC533.C678 2019




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Potential alcohol addiction mechanism revealed

Researchers are using knowledge gained from rat studies to develop better therapeutics




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Psychologists to CM: re-open de-addiction centres for tobacco users




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Deaddiction specialists say lockdown was hard on patients, some support liquor home delivery




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We need to question our addiction to cultural and political economy of alcohol