A blogger over at Psychology Today asks: will there ever be a cure for addiction? Short answer: maybe, but not soon. We’ve got to understand it before we can “cure” it (we’ve also got to define “cure”). It’s now legally recognized as a disease, though, so that’s heading in the right direction.
A report that hookah smoking is increasing among women in their first year of college fascinated me this week. Is this trend on the rise because, as the article states, students believe that smoking a hookah is “safer” than smoking (it isn’t)? Is it due to the “social nature” of the drug, and the comfort of ritual in a time when new students are trying to make friends and adjust to a new life? I think a sociological study could answer a lot of questions here. What do you think?
Here’s an article that can perhaps be best explained by its own first sentence: “The Summer Olympics are fast approaching, and that can only mean one thing: drugs.”
This blogger is worrying about “techno addiction”. Personally, I think that while technology is certainly changing the ways we communicate, it isn’t destroying them. And by the same token, could you say that humans are “addicted” to social interaction in the first place? Definitions, please.
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