The View from 22: Addicted to everything

Are you an addict without even realising it? Smartphones, Twitter, video games, emails, prescription drugs and even cupcakes are causing an unnerving shift in our natural behaviour, says Damian Thompson in our cover feature this week. In his new book, The Fix, Damian examines the ‘public health nuisance’ that is taking control of our lives. Damian also speaks on this week’s View from 22 podcast about some of the stranger addictions he has encountered while researching his book:

‘Many of the people caught collecting dirty pictures think of themselves of collectors rather than as perverts. I cite the case of a catholic priest caught with unimaginable amounts of underage porn. He can not have looked at more than a small percentage of it. But what happened was the collecting urge, which is easily stimulated by digital urge, triggered obsessive compulsive impulses which many of us have.’