[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts

Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com

According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

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