The Oprah PodcastWhen Your Kids Won’t Put Their Phones Down, with Oprah & Addiction Specialist Dr. Anna Lembke

Smartphone Equals Heroin Needle

2:58–3:28 · 30s

Oprah likens grabbing a phone from a teen to yanking away a heroin needle, and Dr. Lembke doubles down, calling digital media a potent drug that hijacks the brain’s reward pathway.

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