Do you find it hard to ignore new emails texts and images even while spending time with family and friends? If so it is time to mend your manners as a new study says that overuse of smartphones is just like any other type of substance abuse. The findings published in the journal NeuroRegulation also showed that those who used their phones the most reported higher levels of feeling isolated lonely depressed and anxious. The behavioural addiction of smartphone use begins forming neurological connections in the brain in ways similar to how opioid addiction is experienced by people taking Oxycontin
