Technology Is Not A Drug
Many studies link tech addiction (like playing video games) to cocaine, or methamphetamine usage, as it stimulates the same pleasure centres of the brain.
The dopamine release is blamed for the addiction, but research shows that video games release far less dopamine than drugs, approximately the same as having food.
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