Psychiatric News (5/9) reports that on Wednesday, “as the 2024 Annual Meeting wound down, outgoing APA President Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., capped his presidential theme of ‘confronting addiction’ with a presentation titled ‘Technological Addictions: The New Frontier in Addiction Medicine.’” Levounis “outlined some of the parallels between technological addictions and substance use disorder (SUD) in terms of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.” Levounis “said that technological addictions (such as video/internet gaming, cybersex, and online gambling addiction) have several characteristics in common with other addictions such as SUD.” Levounis “said that cognitive behavioral therapy is better suited to patients who already recognize they have a problem and want to address it.”
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— “https://alert.psychnews.org/2024/05/technology-addictions-are-real-but.html, Psychiatric News, May 9, 2024