Where once most addicts were considered weak and had only themselves to blame, times have changed, and addiction is now defined as a disease.
But as times change, the kinds of things we become addicted to change too, as does the number of people who fall victim to addiction.
Here, The Agenda's Stephen Cole looks at just how we become addicted, and the worrying scale of the world’s addiction crisis.
Watch #TheAgenda in full and find out more at: https://www.cgtn.com/europe/the-agenda
📲 Follow CGTN Europe on social media and other platforms👇🏼
https://stories.cgtneurope.tv/follow-cgtn-europe/index.html
Addiction is a multi-trillion-dollar problem from which no country is entirely immune.
Experts describe it as a disease that alters our brain, making us a slave to a substance or an activity.
But just how do we become addicted to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, food and so on? What are the human a...
"They all have an idea. They all believe wholly in their idea," Scott Omelianuk, editor in chief of Inc. magazine, says about what makes an entrepreneur. #TheAgenda
Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-22/What-drives-an-entrepreneur-Scott-Omelianuk-says-ideas-are-key-Y1gtepx1tK/index....
Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Associate Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership at Henley Business School, thinks the basics of entrepreneurship can be taught.
“We’re seeing more and more research in terms of neuroscience, that shows us the characteristics such as creativity are skills that can be t...