{"id":1591,"date":"2019-11-16T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobriety.ca\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:58:31","slug":"the-blue-light-of-death-with-the-world-at-our-fingertips-why-would-we-look-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-blue-light-of-death-with-the-world-at-our-fingertips-why-would-we-look-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Light of Death: With the World At Our Fingertips Why Would We Look Away?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sometimes it\u2019s a fantastic idea to take a break. I\u2019m taking a break right now from writing about more serious addiction issues like alcoholism and illicit drug use to touch on one of the most widespread addictions (if you consider it one) facing not just the west, but third world countries as well. Those blue lit screens we are glued to, we just can\u2019t take the time\u00a0away from them that we should because in the past few years the whole world has become available, and presented, to us on screens in varying sizes. Nearly all the world\u2019s information is at our fingertips, the same goes for entertainment and communication, it\u2019s truly impressive isn\u2019t it? It is. There\u2019s no doubt about that, but to quote an old, and imaginary friend of mine, \u201cwith great power comes great responsibility\u201d. Well, now that the day\u2019s cheesy quote quota has been reached, let\u2019s talk about phones, tablets and computers. I honestly don\u2019t remember much\u00a0about life before all this accessibility. The convenience of carrying around a powerful device like a smartphone in my pocket can\u2019t be easily dismissed, but on the other hand neither can the feeling of being disconnected after only a few minutes away from social media and apps like Skype. Can\u2019t ignore my sleep issues, eye strain or the temptation to get into meaningless and pointless internet debates with strangers from Uzbekistan either. Not the biggest problems, I suppose, when we compare them to those faced by alcoholics and drug addicts, but they are problems right?<\/span><\/p>

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It\u2019s gotten to the point that texting while driving accidents are not only more frequent but are, in fact, more deadly than drunk driving accidents. Large numbers of people are on their smartphones or tablets while having sex (<\/span>http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2013\/07\/one-in-five-young-adults-admit-to-using-smartphone-during-sex\/<\/span><\/a>), not to mention texting while in the shower and while using the bathroom. <\/span><\/p>

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It seems we can\u2019t disconnect. We are, by nature, social creatures for the most part, and with a smartphone even the most introverted and loneliest of us can feel a strong sense of connection with thousands of other people, which isn\u2019t always a bad thing.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it\u2019s a fantastic idea to take a break. I\u2019m taking a break right now from writing about more serious addiction issues like alcoholism and illicit drug use to touch on one of the most widespread addictions (if you consider it one) facing not just the west, but third world countries as well. Those blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,29,46,45,63,50,59,26,53,49,51,25,34,48,23,52,64,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-treatment","category-calgary","category-depression","category-edmonton","category-health","category-mental-health","category-montreal","category-motivation","category-neurology","category-nova-scotia","category-ottawa","category-quebec","category-recovery","category-scientific-study","category-toronto","category-treatment","category-vancouver","category-well-being","category-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}