addiction

The other side wants you to believe that all drug use ends in addiction and death.

For the person in the future who you will come across who needs help with their addiction.

Do you think you could go down for a week?That's generally how long I need to break an addiction

Dr. Gabor Mate has done great research linking addictions of any kind to stresses in the body.

Enough that liver damage and addiction started to be a concern.

Maybe they suck at it, and just realized that?It sounds like you used to be obsessed with porn, and now you're obsessed with "porn addiction"

"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion.

I'm a psychiatrist and I work with an addiction population.

Firstly, addiction to stimulant medication is not \n rare; it is common.

Yes, addiction ends up that way for some, but by and large addicts are middle-class, educated, and live in houses with their friends or families.

Yes, addiction is a terrible tragedy and sometimes danger for the rest of us -- but it's a personal disaster a long time before it affects any of us.

Today I know the only difference between a programmer and a yet-to-be-programmer kid are bigger feet and a coffee addiction, the computers are the very same.

As someone who struggled with cocaine, heroin and prescription opioid addictions throughout my teenage years, this resonates with me quite a bit, but I'm not sure if I agree with the conclusions the author is drawing.

In fact, now that I have learned about this, whenever I see a post on HN about how someone has lost their interest in programming or other activities, the first thing I think of is probably this person has a porn addiction.

While some level of motivation is necessary to kick start action, too much motivation is a crippling addiction that turns individuals into self-help cult members who follow every move of their marketing guru.

Would piss you off, right?If you want to restrict the games kids play or the sites they visit on their phones, that's probably for the better, be sure to inform them of the logical reasons such as the fact that game companies exploit human psychology to create addiction and many apps upload private information that could harm them later in life.

I don't really hang out in environments where they're easy to obtain anymore, but if I ever find myself in one, even though I know on some rational level that I'd never touch them again, part of me is in great distress because I'd have a hard time saying no if they were offered to me.\nI think these types of articles tend to ignore the longer-lasting, psychologically debilitating consequences of addiction.