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Lily Allen vows to cut down on her ‘addictive’ phone usage in 2021

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‘My brain, relationship and work suffer’: Lily Allen vows to cut down on her ‘addictive’ phone usage in 2021 after successfully ‘ditching drugs, booze and fags’ By Ciara Farmer For Mailonline Published: 14:55 GMT, 1 January 2021 | Updated: 14:58 GMT, 1 January 2021 Lily Allen has vowed to cut back on her phone use … Read more

The Crown is addictive TV but royal historian says drama plays fast and loose with the truth

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Like the previous three series of The Crown, the latest is riddled with factual errors. Here, Royal historian Ian Lloyd highlights some of the worst examples. DIANA AND CAMILLA’S LUNCH ‘DISASTER’ TV VERSION The two women in Charles’s life are shown meeting for lunch at the London restaurant Menage a Trois shortly after the Prince … Read more

People who enjoy embarrassing others are more likely to find social networks addictive,

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People who enjoy embarrassing or angering others are more likely to find social networks like Facebook and Snapchat addictive, study shows Researchers studied how much time was spent on Snapchat and Facebook  Also looked at what sort of interactions motivated people to use the sites  Found those who spent a large amount of time on … Read more

Brains behind addictive Dingbats game Paul Sellers dies

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Brains behind addictive Dingbats game Paul Sellers dies aged 89 just a month after compiling and illustrating his last strip By A Mail On Sunday Reporter Published: 01:25 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 01:25 BST, 3 May 2020 Paul Sellers, creator of the Dingbats puzzle phenomenon, has died aged 89. Dingbats has been one … Read more

Cannabis IS addictive and causes withdrawal symptoms

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Cannabis causes serious withdrawal symptoms in regular users trying to quit the drug – including headaches, anger and anxiety, a new study found.  Researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario used data from 23,000 marijuana users and discovered it is far more addictive than campaigners claim.  The idea that cannabis is a non-addictive substance is … Read more

Weird ‘cures’ including addictive drugs for weightloss and cigarettes for asthma

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Thanks goodness for modern medicine! Vintage posters reveal the VERY bizarre cures of days gone by – including the tapeworm diet and asthma cigarettes Bored Panda has shared adverts for bizarre ‘cures’ for ailments including asthma The medical practices were popular at various points throughout history Victorian tapeworm diet promised that you could eat without … Read more

‘Hippy crack’ is less addictive than alcohol, drug tsar claims

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‘Hippy crack’ is less damaging than alcohol and should never have been banned, the Government’s former drug tsar has said. Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, gives users a feeling of euphoria. It was outlawed by officials three years ago. Professor David Nutt said nos, as it is sometimes known, was a ‘great British discovery’ … Read more