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...In a brownstone manor house nestled on 430 acres of farmland in rural Virginia, the Williamsville Wellness rehabilitation retreat treats people addicted to casino slots and roulette games, as well as drugs...
...According to OryLab Inc, which runs the café, the goal is to use technology to achieve a new form of social participation....
...The addiction playbook Though social media companies have so far avoided stringent regulation, a day of reckoning is approaching....
...Tim Cook, the company’s chief executive, has repeatedly said Apple’s greatest contribution to the world will be in “health and wellness” and the Apple Watch is the most visible part of that strategy, with...
...Courtney Dombroski risked arrest for the past four years just to feed her addiction....
...“I thought that I needed to compartmentalise these different things: the opioid epidemic, the people suffering, the addiction, the deaths, the caregivers, the parents.”...
...Suboxone Film, which contains buprenorphine and naloxone, is designed to treat opioid addiction....
...Dylan Loh in Singapore and Gwen Robinson in Bangkok also contributed to this story A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 2 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...It cited one study showing “narcotic addiction in physicians varied from 30 to 100 times that found in the general population”....
...After she recovered from the addiction, she visited a new doctor....
...Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads. And we will give Fitbit users the choice to review, move, or delete their data,” he said....
...Two million Americans are suffering from opioid use disorder, according to the Center for Disease Control, and the outbreak of overdoses has contributed to a drop in US life expectancy....
...About 90 per cent of the group’s revenue comes from opioids that clinicians are increasingly reluctant to prescribe due to the addiction crisis....
...“The Center for Disease Control has made it very clear: the reason so many Americans are addicted to opioids is that the medical community began to prescribe very aggressively starting in the mid-90s....
...Last month, Verily opened OneFifteen, a collaboration with local health services in Ohio to create a state of the art opioid addiction treatment centre....
...In August, the Chinese government accused the Pogos of causing gambling addiction and other “social problems” in China....
...Some sufferers of depression have been turning to ketamine infusions at so-called wellness centres but doctors have not been able to prescribe the treatment and health insurers will not pay for it....
...“They should be on the frontline of the work that needs to be done now to restore communities, address addiction and repair the damage that has been done.”...
...“The lack of data is a critical barrier to the adoption of medical marijuana,” says Dr Randi Schuster, at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Addiction Medicine....
...David Greenfield, a clinical psychologist who founded the Connecticut-based Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, says: “They knew this tech was addictive from early on....
...A number of former tech executives and advocacy groups have raised concerns over smartphone addiction and the impact of digital distraction, prompting companies including Google and Facebook to emphasise...
...Kennedy’s advocacy for mental health stems from his own struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder....
...Aza Raskin, a co-founder of the non-profit Center for Humane Technology, said Apple was finally taking steps towards features that reduce the distraction and addictions its smartphones create....
...David Greenfield, a clinical psychologist who founded the Connecticut-based Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, is pushing for greater education....
...It was formed last year in response to rising concerns about the role played by opioid manufacturers and distributors in exacerbating the US’s addiction crisis....
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