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From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming ...

A recent study published in Computers in Human Behaviour, a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal, found that avoiding ...

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This is the first installment of a five-part series on the Drug-Alcohol Coalition of Iredell's recent "In The Know" event.