Digital Addiction: Is It Real or a Symptom of Other Problems?

Digital addiction: Is it real or a symptom of other problems?

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Next month, the Internet Addiction Treatment and Recovery Center will open to inpatients at Pennsylvania's Bradford Regional Medical Center. The centre's director, psychologist Kimberly S Young, said the four-bed hospital unit will be the US' first to …
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Kiambu NGO in Drug Fight

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A counselling and rehabilitation NGO in Kiambu has called upon the church to support community-based rehabs that fight drug addiction among the youth. Suffers of Health and Environment director Njoki … Mitugo said the recent statistics by Nacada …
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Legal high deaths increase sharply in a year

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The public health authorities also suggest treatment programmes have helped to shrink the pool of heroin and crack addicts in England from 64,288 in 2005-06 to 47,210 in 2011-12, but the ONS says evidence from the official crime figures shows there has …
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New studies in The Lancet reveal global impact of mental and substance disorders

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"Despite the personal and economic costs, treatment rates for people with mental and substance use disorders are low, and even in developed countries, treatment is typically provided many years after the disorder begins. In all countries, stigma about …
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