Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?

Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by smogcutter on Thursday January 23, 2025 @01:39AM (#42801314)

Junk food addiction (your word, not TFA’s) is also not in the DSM V, so appealing to authority like that or hanging on the word addiction gets you nowhere as far as whether the comparison to social media is interesting.

For what it’s worth gambling addiction is in the DSM-V. What’s it’s direct route to biochemically alter the brain, like nicotine and food intake?

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Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by superkuh on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:18AM (#42804844)

If you believe in "Junk food addiction" then you have the same problem. Trusting for-profit gurus and hip informal internet magazines instead of the available peer reviewed evidence.

Gambling addiction is not in the DSM-V, it's gambling disorder, and it's grandfathered in as the only behavioral disorder of it's kind.

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