Youth can’t do without phones, alcohol, drugs
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Back in my day, the youth gone wild saying used to be Sex, drugs and Rock-n-Roll. For today youth, it appears that mobility has now been added to the mix.
Three studies published today show that young people seem to be drinking too much, smoking tobacco and using mobile phones a great deal. Obviously they can only afford to do this thanks to the fact that all their music is stolen these days.
Psychologist Dr. David Sheffield got 100 students to fill in forms normally used to assess gambling addiction, and found that 16 of them (one in six, as the headlines would have it) showed addictive behaviour. Apparently 90 per cent of the students said they took their mobile phone with them everywhere, and a third would phone a friend when they felt down: both clear signs of addiction….Source: The Register