How Your Gadgets Are Turning You in to an Addict

Collins Shorts—insight in an instant. This is an extract taken from the full version of “The Fix” by Damian Thompson. When does your casual habit become an addictive obsession? Damian Thompson, who has himself struggled with a range of addictions, suggests that our increasing use of gadgets and mobiles, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol and sex are fast becoming addictions taking over our lives.