Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media ...

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has ...

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

The DeKalb County School District has spent over $4.3 million trying to remedy the harm caused by its students’ addiction to social media and will need much more money to keep up the fight, it has ...

Demonstrators hold a rally outside of Snap Inc. headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., on Feb. 12 in an effort to encourage social media companies to monitor explicit content directed at children.

(TNS) — The DeKalb County School District has spent over $4.3 million trying to remedy the harm caused by its students’ addiction to social media and will need much more money to keep up the fight, it ...

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular when a person cannot stop these behaviors despite experiencing negative ...

A potential watershed moment for the tech industry starts this week, as the first of a series of major "social media addiction" trials gets underway. The case involves a 19-year-old California woman, ...

Mesa County is a cultural melting pot where people mostly coexist in peace. What people may not realize is that within this harmony lies a sickness that plagues the community: drug addiction.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

A new study found GLP-1 drugs were associated with 50% fewer substance-related deaths, 39% fewer drug overdoses, and 26% ...