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Selected Bibliography:

Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation
Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology
David Courtwright, Age of Addiction
Morse, S. (2012). Legal Regulation of Addictive Substances and Addiction. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/neuroethics_pubs/79 
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 
Mark Andrejevic, Automated Media
Brian McCullough, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
https://www.asam.org/quality-care/definition-of-addiction 
https://www.jmir.org/2014/2/e33/ 
https://childmind.org/article/is-internet-addiction-real/
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rq188wb9000/Masters_Thesis_Devangi_Vivrekar_2018.pdf 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023737/ 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40429-022-00435-6#:~:text=The%20prevalence%20rates%20for%20each,exercise%20addiction%2C%207.2%25%20for%20gambling