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Both can be addictions whose severity range can range from inconsequential, to minor, to debilitating, to life-ending.

One is a physical dependence, the other is a psychological dependence.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/

Well now we are getting into regulating dopamine responses, which is too broad to apply to a single website which is probably why the article doesn't have a source.

This article is just a hit piece. This is the trash on HN these days.

Almost everyone has uncontrollable mental patterns. Some are more self destructive than others.