Withdrawal symptoms experienced by young people deprived of gadgets and technology is compared to those felt by drug addicts or smokers going "cold Turkey", a study has concluded.

一项研究得出结论说，年轻人被迫脱离科技产品时感觉到的症状和瘾君子突然戒毒或戒烟时的感觉很类似。

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In fact, they discover that unlike an individual addicted to the hardest substances, a society addicted to government, especially a majoritarian democracy where rent seeking is rampant, cannot realistically be expected to undergo cold-turkey withdrawal and remain abstinent.

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Nobody ever went through withdrawal after going cold turkey on Big Macs, after all.

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The crisis was subsequently resolved when the USSR agreed to remove the missiles in return for the withdrawal of US nuclear missiles from Turkey.

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