A program in rural eastern Kentucky is receiving opioid settlement funding to address substance use disorders, housing, ...

The company behind the iconic Commodore 64 has launched a retro-inspired flip phone aimed at reducing screen time. The ...

Hollywood star Vinnie Jones has attacked 'addictive' technology for fuelling children's mental health struggles. The former Wimbledon midfielder insisted greater action was required to help young ...

A Boots worker from Nottingham stole more than £90,000 from her employer to pay off a drug debt. Nottingham Crown Court heard how Marie Hall duplicated expenses for two managing directors she was a ...

It was nearing midnight when she slipped out of bed, padded across the wood floors and peered into the room across the hall. Her 15-year-old son was still awake, like she knew he would be, sitting in ...

A mum-of-three became addicted to medication prescribed for ADHD taking more than seven times the recommended adult dose – a level that should have killed her. Shannon Anderson, 37, was left paranoid, ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — More than half of the people jailed in New York state wind up back in jail within three years of their release, according to the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services. One jail ...

For nearly a decade, a long-standing and high-trusted employee of the Auckland Rugby League managed to defraud more than $133,000 from the organisation by transferring the money into her own bank ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions (CDS) from selling location data without consumers' explicit consent to settle charges ...

Her actions may be numbing pain she feels in other areas of her life, so you must approach the issue thoughtfully My mother is in her 70s and addicted to playing video games such as Tetris, many ...

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New research presented at the 2026 CHI ...

Summary: As AI chatbots become a staple of modern life, new research warns of a growing phenomenon: AI addiction. The study analyzed hundreds of user experiences to identify how “genie-like” instant ...