Tag: REHAB

The Chinese version of the Internet may be watered down and heavily censored, but, for many of that nation's youth, it holds the same kind of allure that keeps the rest of us glued to our laptops all day. For some, though, allure soon turns into outright addiction, and, in response, many Chinese parents are now sending their kids to digital "rehab" clinics to cure them. The effectiveness of these ...

The Capio Nightingale Hospital in London has just launched a rehabilitation program dedicated to Internet addiction. The program is being offered as a one-stop shop for intensive in-patient treatment, day care, and group therapy sessions. While treatment will be offered to children as young as 12-years old, it is particularly aimed at tech-junkies aged 15 to 17. The need for Net addiction ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/08/21/u-s-gets-its-first-net-addiction-rehab-center/'; Internet addiction has been blamed for bad grades, lackluster sex lives, and violence. Now, finally completing its rise to the status of a serious affliction, it has its first rehabilitation center in the U.S. reSTART, a new Internet addiction recovery center 25 miles outside of Seattle, features a ...