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- Choose Your Addiction https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/choose-your-addiction 24 comments
- ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/why-success-wont-make-you-happy/614731/ 128 comments
- "no one chooses to become an addict" - princess of Wales gives speech https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63440985 2603 comments worldnews
- ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/why-success-wont-make-you-happy/614731/ 3 comments science
- Senate health bill would force choosing between ‘children, seniors, the disabled, the addicted,’ Kasich says http://kwbe.com/abc_politics/senate-health-bill-would-force-choosing-between-children-seniors-the-disabled-the-addicted-kasich-says-abcid35934879/ 3 comments politics
- Addicts, Mythmakers and Philosophers -- Addiction assessed via philosophy. "For Socrates, ‘yielding to temptation’ is not being unwillingly overpowered, but is the experience of being a willing participant choosing what is at that moment wrongly thought to be best" http://www.philosophynow.org/issues/90/addicts_mythmakers_and_philosophers 20 comments philosophy
- Scientists pinpoint the brain circuitry linked to making healthy or unhealthy choices: What drives addicts to repeatedly choose drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, overeating, gambling or kleptomania, despite the risks involved? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-scientists-brain-circuitry-linked-healthy.html 12 comments cogsci
- Rat Park: Rats addicted to morphine, when placed in good living conditions, choose plain water over water with morphine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rat_park 51 comments science
- Guy chooses World of Warcraft over Sex - Video Game Addict http://moviepals.org/computerkillingyou/2009/03/19/guy-chooses-world-of-warcraft-over-sex-wow-video-game-addiction-story/ 8 comments technology