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Mitchell, who unsuccessfully ran for district attorney and will lead a task force on homelessness and addiction for Hochman, told me he was frank with drug users who came before him in court.

Drug addiction and overdose deaths in the US have skyrocketed for the past three decades, initially fuelled by prescription opioids and later by the rise of heroin and synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

His lawyer at the time said the comments were the result of "work-related stress and multiple addictions".

A recent Education Select Committee report revealed that one in four children now use their phones in a manner resembling behavioural addiction.

Ella Langley, “Nicotine” Never doubt a country act’s ability to sell an addiction metaphor.