Opinion: Addiction is the wrong word Ava Mohror • February 17, 2022 When and why did adults start telling teens they are addicted to their phones? Addiction, as defined by ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, is a, “compulsive physiological need for and use of a habit-forming substance.”...
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