Q: My 11-year-old daughter is addicted to the game Minecraft. During the week it doesn’t seem to be a problem as she is busy with sports and homework. However, during the weekends she has a lot more free time and tends to spend hours playing Minecraft. What would be the amount of time that you recommend she play Minecraft per day?
~ Mind Crack or Minecraft? Burlingame/Hillsborough area, CA
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Binswanger, I. A. , Stern, M. F. , Yamashita, T. E. , Mueller, S. R. , Baggett, T. P. , and Blatchford, P. J. (2015 ) Clinical risk factors for death after release from prison in Washington State: a nested case–control study . Addiction , doi: 10.1111/add.13200. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Division of Substance Dependence, Department of Psychiatry, Univ
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Sophie Anderton is the first to admit that her career as a ‘celebrity’ was a car crash in decade-long slow motion. After rocketing to fame in 1996 aged just 19 as the face – and body – of Gossard’s Wonderbra, the ex-public schoolgirl from Bristol seemed to have a promising future. But plucked from her middle-class family to ‘live on a plane, between New York, Paris, and London’, she
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