Word: addictionã
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...vodka bottle?—it was disturbing to find that what I had chalked up to simple procrastination could, in the right hands, be transformed into a terrifying condition. Ours is a culture that throws serious terms like “rape” and “addiction?? around unthinkingly, e.g. “I was raped by that ec test” or “I’m addicted to internet porn.” But at what point do you stop being “addicted” to something and become...
...clinic with an optimistic name like “Wireless Promises” and slowly nursed back to health by a team of experts. Instead, no one seemed to think I had a problem. And perhaps there was good reason for this. Perhaps “Net Addiction?? is not so much a constant danger that looms over people who know and use the internet as it is a fear of people who don?...
...this doesn’t sound like a problem. Our generation has grown up on the internet, and most of us still manage to lead normal lives. Indeed, the very term “Net Addiction?? belies the fact that those coming up with these horrifying categories do not belong to the internet generation. No one who has been near a computer since 1997 still uses the term “Net.” These are people who still say things like “What?...
...visible in both mainstream and more independent art venues. DIFFERENT PATHS Katherine J. Davis ’82, who has directed and produced a number of critically acclaimed documentaries and films for television—including a segment in last year’s HBO series, “Addiction??—came to Harvard with an interest in painting and studio art.Only in her senior year did she enroll in Ross McElwee’s introductory course in film making, discovering a love for the psychological and drawmatic elements of the art. “Film...
...Other Drug Services warns us to keep track of our drinks on school-sponsored Nalgenes, and concerned parents send weekly chain e-mails, deploring the danger of drugs. Faced with all that anti-addiction publicity, what makes HBO’s new 14-part documentary series “Addiction?? any different? For starters, the documentary series, which premiered yesterday, aspires to do more than frighten viewers. It aims to turn addiction from a taboo subject into an acceptable community topic for discussion. At an advance screening held in Boston on Feb. 26, experts and former addicts came...