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Amy Baxter
How to hack your brain when you're in pain
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TikTok's CEO on its future — and what makes its algorithm different
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Mike Davis
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May 2020
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Mitch Zeller
The past, present and future of nicotine addiction
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Austin Eubanks
What surviving the Columbine shooting taught me about pain
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May 2019
14:29
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin
What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes
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May 2019
14:31
Jan Rader
In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life
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Jan 2019
18:31
Rachel Wurzman
How isolation fuels opioid addiction
Posted
Oct 2018
12:01
Chera Kowalski
The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
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Jun 2018
16:31
Mark Tyndall
The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
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Apr 2018
12:25
Guy Winch
How to fix a broken heart
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Feb 2018
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Manoush Zomorodi
How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
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Aug 2017
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Tristan Harris
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
Posted
Jul 2017
9:29
Adam Alter
Why our screens make us less happy
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Jul 2017
15:07
David Casarett
A doctor's case for medical marijuana
Posted
Apr 2017
10:44
Michael Botticelli
Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one
Posted
Mar 2017
14:42
J.D. Vance
America's forgotten working class
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Sep 2016
9:24
Judson Brewer
A simple way to break a bad habit
Posted
Feb 2016
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Johann Hari
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
Posted
Jul 2015
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Nicole Avena
How sugar affects the brain
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Jan 2014
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