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Constant Cravings: Is Addiction On The Rise?

17 mins | Jan 21, 2019

From sex to sugar to social media, people are in the grip of a wider range of compulsive behaviours. Amy Fleming, writing in The Guardian, investigates what is driving them and what can be done.

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