Florence Launches Italy's First Specialized Public Digital Addiction Center

Recovery News | Mental Health & Addiction Recovery · Jul 25, 2026 · 3m

For years, when parents, educators, and health experts raised concerns about teenagers and young adults spending endless hours glued to their smartphones, the standard response was to treat it as a simple discipline issue. We told young people to just set app timers, leave their phones in another room, or go outside, operating under the assumption that screen overuse was merely a bad habit that required a little extra willpower to break. But according to an eye-opening public health report published by Euronews Health, European healthcare systems are officially dropping the idea that this is…