Summary
With their labile and rapidly developing brains, adolescents are particularly susceptible to addiction, and addiction leads to anxiety and depression.
What few parents will know is that what we think of as the most typical addictions and problematic teen behaviours - smoking, drinking, drug taking, sex leading to teenage pregnancy - are on the decline.
The bad news is that a whole raft of addictions has taken their place. Whereas once the dopamine-hungry brain of a teenager go…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760559465 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760559466 |
| Author: | David Gillespie |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 424g |
| Dimensions: | 157mm x 235mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
David Gillespie
For the last 10 years, former lawyer and bestselling author David Gillespie has devoted himself to exposing forces in today’s society that work against our interests as consumers and citizens. Beginning with the Sweet Poison books he followed those up with Big Fat Lies and Toxic Oil. He then focused on education in Free Schools, before returning to the topic of nutrition in Eat Real Food and then the everyday psychopath in Taming Toxic People. Now David turns his attention to another endemic societal threat - the addictive impact of technology on our children.
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