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Screen Time Recommendations by Age

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Addiction Medicine Insights
The AAP no longer sets one screen time limit for every age. Here is the current guidance by age band and what to watch instead of the clock.

How Much Gaming Is Too Much?

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Addiction Medicine Insights
There is no evidence-based hour limit. Gaming disorder is defined by loss of control and harm, not time played. Here is the actual test.

Cyberbullying Effects: What Parents Need to Watch For

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Wellness Coaching Insights
Cyberbullying is linked to depression, anxiety and self-harm in young people. The signs, how to raise it, and when to get help the same day.

Journaling for Anxiety and Triggers: What Actually Helps

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Wellness Coaching Insights
Journaling helps two ways — processing distress, and finding your triggers. What the research supports, and the format worth starting with.

Signs of Sepsis After Surgery: When to Call, When to Go

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Infectious Diseases Insights
Sepsis after surgery is a medical emergency. An infectious disease physician explains the warning signs, when to call your surgeon, and when to go to the ER.

Boulder Back Pain Study: What It Really Found

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PRT Insights
A physician walks through the 2022 randomised trial of Pain Reprocessing Therapy for chronic back pain, what the 66 percent means, and what it does not.

Nutrition in Addiction Recovery: A Doctor’s Guide

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Addiction Medicine Insights
What substance use does to nutrition, why thiamine matters in alcohol recovery, and which popular supplement claims do not hold up to evidence.

Should I Drug Test My Teenager? A Physician’s Answer

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Addiction Medicine Insights
What a teen drug test can and cannot tell you, why the AAP cautions against testing at home, and what to actually do with a positive result.

Peer Pressure and Drugs: How to Say No and Mean It

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Addiction Medicine Insights
Most teenagers are not using. Why peer pressure still works on a developing brain, and how refusal skills are actually built rather than lectured.