I've Put a Spell on You, but It's Not Normal

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i think what's most alarming for the next generation, beyond the i ate harms that we know it's causing more depression and increasing a corelates with with suicide and things like this, is that this is the new normal. And that's why i feel like yodenina simone song. I cant rember the original author, but i've put a spell on you, you know, technology'sPut a spell on us, and it's not real. It's time we snapped out of it and said, this normal. Doesn't have to be normal. In fact, it's not normal, and it shouldn't be normal. When we see people flirting in public

What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who were struggling with substance abuse and those who had recovered from it, and he came to the conclusion that our whole narrative about addiction is broken. "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety," he argues. "The opposite of addiction is connection." But first, we have to figure out what it really means to connect.