Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of her own TV show, “Issues,” on HLN and author of a newly released book, Addict-Nation, An Intervention for America, well remembers the genesis of one of the topics in her book. She and her partner were about to become intimate, she cheerfully relates — until she got an overwhelming urge to check her BlackBerry for email first. Uh oh, was her next thought. “Is this the sign of an addiction?” Velez-Mitchell is spreading the word about how easy it is to become addicted to a substance — from food to drugs to online pornography to, yes, popular technologies such as social networking and mobile devices.
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The Tech Addict's Road to Spiritual Bankruptcy: Q&A With Jane Velez-Mitchell
Posted by: Erika Morphy April 29, 2011 05:00 AMJane Velez-Mitchell, host of her own TV show, “Issues,” on HLN and author of a newly released book, Addict-Nation, An Intervention for America, well remembers the genesis of one of the topics in her book. She and her partner were about to become intimate, she cheerfully relates — until she got an overwhelming urge to check her BlackBerry for email first. Uh oh, was her next thought. “Is this the sign of an addiction?” Velez-Mitchell is spreading the word about how easy it is to become addicted to a substance — from food to drugs to online pornography to, yes, popular technologies such as social networking and mobile devices.