The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday, May 4, edition that as provinces move to ban phones in classrooms, the debate focuses on academic distraction. The Globe's guest columnist Thais Freitas writes that the ban overlooks, however, a deeper neurological issue: we're running an experiment on young Canadians' minds, and signs suggest that many youth are struggling to lead their own lives. Mr. Freitas says in his work with wilderness programs across Canada, he regularly see a phenomenon that looks less like a typical adjustment to summer camp and more like clinical withdrawal. When teenagers first hand over their devices, the reaction is visceral. More than boredom, they exhibit a profound physical restlessness. More than a bad habit, this restlessness is the physical evidence of a brain struggling to rewire itself for a slower reality. In Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains how our brains evolved to handle scarcity, not the non-stop stimulation of the digital age. When we're constantly flooded with high-speed digital rewards, our internal balance tips. To compensate for the "highs," our brains leave us in a chronic state of deficit where anything slow or quiet feels physically intolerable.