Growing concern about the impact of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents has prompted decisive action: New York City is suing tech giants for fostering digital addiction. At the same time, a recent neuroimaging meta-analysis has [...]
As we explained in previous posts, big technology companies – such as TikTok, Meta, Google or Snapchat – have been sued by dozens of schools in Seattle, United States, for causing large-scale psychological damage to minors. And, according to UNICEF [...]
According to BusinessInsider, Seattle school boards have blamed some social networks like Meta, TikTok, Google and Snapchat for manipulating and abusing the vulnerable brains of young people, «hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops [...]
The prescription of opioids has grown in Spain, but with much lower rates than those in North America In recent years, the USA and Canada have experienced an alarming increase in the use of opioids. Given this growth, last September, [...]
A large scientific study shows the harmful neurological effects of cannabis Drug addiction in the US and overdose deaths are a major concern for the country’s health authorities. Public opinion, particularly young people, consider some drugs for recreational use harmless [...]
Should health care providers help people to use addictive substances more safely? The so-called overdose-death crisis and COVID-19 in the United States is a serious matter of concern in healthcare administration. The current risk is that the huge efforts invested [...]
Increasing overdose deaths in the United States is an issue that greatly concerns healthcare authorities and bioethicists. Are prevention campaigns proving effective? Could healthcare regulations be improved? Can doctors do better in the prescription of these drugs? What is the [...]
In 2018, our Observatory published a brief news article, entitled “Chemsex on the rise among homosexuals. How will it affect public health?”. The piece, which was based on a BMJ report, concluded that, “Various authors have called for chemsex to [...]
Introduction A dossier published in The Washington Post discusses the conflict that has emerged in the US with the advertising and prescription of opioid analgesics, as a result of the manipulation of information detected in their promotion and bias regarding [...]
A recent article published in The New York Times (July 15, 2020) with the title “In Shadow of Pandemic, U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Resurge to Record” approaches the issue in the current pandemic crisis. The authors say “Nearly 72,000 Americans [...]
Two recent news articles have asked us to think about it: The first is that the prevalence of “vaping” among adolescents in the United States has more than doubled since 2017. According to data from the New England Journal of [...]
Based on research that has found links between pornography and ‘mental and physical illnesses,’ among a host of other societal and individual ills, Arizona yesterday declared pornography a public health risk* – a year after Florida did the same. Republican [...]
