I'm unsure why some folk have to reach such a dramatic stage before they realise there is a problem that needs to be tackled. I'm also unsure why any newspaper would consider it news, I guess it must be quiet in the world today. I don't see any evidence of planning. Just compulsive behaviour that has yet to be tackled.
Years ago when I used to work in a branch if MacDonalds, it always tickled me when someone would come in, order a Big Mac, large fries, apple pie and a Diet Coke - like the drink was made of magic.
Splat - I would order that in McDonalds if I went too... I just don't like the taste of the full flab drinks*, nowt to do with the magical properties of diet coke! :c)
(*Cept ginger beer, I like full flab ginger beer).
A friend who works in a hospital told me that babies born to women who drink lots of Cola drinks during pregnancy behave like babies born from drug addicts. The babies cry a lot because once born, they too are addicted to what the mother has been having and are suffering from withdrawal symptoms.