{"id":22630,"date":"2016-02-22T18:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/facebook-impacts-brain-similar-to-cocaine-gambling"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:10:23","slug":"facebook-impacts-brain-similar-to-cocaine-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/facebook-impacts-brain-similar-to-cocaine-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Impacts Brain Similar To Cocaine, Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Facebook-addict.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew it! Now, we have proof; FB is addicting like cocaine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Facebook impacts the brain in a similar way to cocaine, gambling and other substance and compulsive addictions, says a new study.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Facebook-addict.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"754\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Facebook stimulates parts of brain in ways similar to cocaine<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cocaine, gambling, trading can involve incredible highs \u2013 and lows. The quest for the rush of excitement, the feeling of invincible confidence and shear ecstasy can turn from an occasional habit to a daily need, as appears to be the case with \u201cthe social network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/2016\/02\/facebook-cocaine-study\/\">http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/2016\/02\/facebook-cocaine-study\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it! Now, we have proof; FB is addicting like cocaine. Facebook impacts the brain in a similar way to cocaine, gambling and other substance and compulsive addictions, says a new study. Facebook stimulates parts of brain in ways similar to cocaine Cocaine, gambling, trading can involve incredible highs \u2013 and lows. The quest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43579,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions\/43579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}