Addiction

How Might Employee Addiction Be Impacting Your Business?

By Jerry Haffey Jr. With 23.5 million Americans addicted to drugs and alcohol across the United States, the presence of addiction in the workplace is no longer a rare exception. In fact, 25% of your employees, who are lifting heavy loads, operating machinery, crunching numbers, treating patients and the like, are either currently suffering from

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Smartphone Addiction Is Real, and Here Are 3 Ways Apple Could Fight It

Candy Crush. Facebook. Twitter. Texting. It’s easy to see why we’re addicted to smartphones, but it’s much tougher to know what to do about it. One person who’s given it plenty of thought is Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell, who’s considered one of the fathers of the iPod for his early work on Apple’s music player. In

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Apply These 3 Techniques to Address Addiction in the Workplace – Small Business Trends

It’s easy to look at drug and alcohol addiction as something “other” people deal with. If you’ve never struggled with it — and it hasn’t been an issue in your social circles — then you probably associate addiction with poverty, unemployment, homelessness and poor life decisions. But what if someone told you that 70 percent

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Former Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition Against Tech Addiction

If there’s one group of people who best know the negative effects of social media and tech addition, it would be the people who have worked to help big tech companies steer the attention of the public. Or to be more accurate, these are people who previously worked with Facebook and Google who have now

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What Rehab & Addiction Facilities Need to Know About Recent Google Policy Changes [Data]

There’s no hiding from the opioid crisis that became a national emergency in 2017. An estimated 20 million Americans, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from drug or alcohol addiction. These facts are important and difficult to dismiss. Addiction is a complicated disease with no simple cure. But nearly every recovery program agrees that

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Google removes addiction treatment ads from UK search results

Google has removed search ads related to addiction treatment in the UK, following an investigation by The Sunday Times (registration required). The investigation revealed an ongoing issue with middlemen bidding on the terms and receiving large kickbacks from the private centers where the searchers are ultimately referred to, in a practice called “patient brokering.” The companies

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New Google Search Console, bug delists Google News publishers & AdWords drops more addiction ads

Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and

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Is Tech the New Tobacco? Why We Should All Pay Attention to Our Newest Addiction

Twenty-five years ago, the internet was still in the hands of a group of optimistic techies.  Early adopters were aware of its powerful potential, but few could have predicted its ubiquitous place in our society today.  While technology has simplified modern life, most of us share a collective addiction to our devices.  We have all

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