This shot made me remember a book I read many years ago by Spider Robinson...
Like much other sci fi I've read over the years, the warnings have been prophetic.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Mindkiller
Spider Robinson
Wireheads, addicted to an electric current fed into the pleasure centers of the brain, are the new junkies. Karen, a former wirehead who barely escaped death by pleasure, is determined to bring down those who sell the wireheading equipment, but she and her lover Joe instead turn up evidence of a shadowy global conspiracy-not to control the world, but to keep anyone from realizing that the masters of mind control have been controlling us all for some time now . . . .