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Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction
Bad decision-making is a trait often associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use social media? Michigan State...
Alcohol misuse – The forgotten addiction
With all eyes in the United States on opioids, the massive unseen threat of alcohol misuse continues to claim lives, argues Dr John F Kelley,...
Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl
Major dark web drug suppliers have started to voluntarily ban the synthetic opioid fentanyl because it is too dangerous, the UK National Crime Agency has...
Nigeria isn’t doing enough to reduce tobacco use. Here’s why
Tobacco remains the biggest public health threat, killing more than seven million people globally every year. The World Health Organization has recognised progress in Nigeria,...
E-cigarettes – Friend or Foe?
The health effects of ‘vaping’, or inhaling the aerosol generated by e-cigarettes, are largely unknown, writes Jenna Flogeras for Advanced Science News. Researchers from...
Amid youth vaping ‘epidemic’, adolescent smoking hits record low
Results from the Monitoring the Future Study, released last month, show a jump in vaping by teenagers similar to the one indicated by National Youth...
Unfounded e-cigarette panic puts public health at risk
E-cigarettes pose a tiny percent of the risk of cigarette smoking, just 1% to 5% according to authorities like the United Kingdom government, writes...
Americans struggle to access medication to treat opioid addiction
Treating opioid addiction with other drugs is considered essential to helping Americans claw their way back from the throes of dependence, writes Laura Kelley...
Smoking shisha linked to diabetes and obesity, study finds
Smoking shisha ‘significantly increases’ the risk of users developing diabetes and obesity, a major study has revealed for the first time, writes Yohannes Louw for The...
China resumes game approvals after freeze over addiction fears
China has resumed approving games for release, following a halt to the process that was put in place last year over fears that video...