The ReSTART clinic in Seattle claims to be “the first residential treatment centre for Internet addiction” in the US, and are offering WoW addicts a 45-day course where patients are weened off World of Warcraft cold turkey. All for the low, low price of $US14,000.
Seriously, $US14,000? I know the American medical system is a joke, but I didn’t think it was that funny.
Rehab available in U.S. for Web addicts [AP, via Dtoid]
Aaron Clement
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:06 PMIt’s easy. Click that ‘cancel subscription’ button, delete all characters and uninstall the game. Problem solved. I’ll happily take $14k to do that for you if it’s too hard!
fORS4kEN
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:06 PMWOW no pun intended.
lecks
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:34 PMWow, pun INtented…
formulated
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 3:47 PMThere’s a documentary “Second Skin” that looks at the lives of WOW/EQ2 players and their addiction, recently came out on DVD. I’m not a player myself and after watching it I’m stay that way.
x ScArEj3W
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 4:18 PMDamn WoW junkies is the 2k version of crack
James Shen
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 9:30 PMThey have something similar in China. Not that much though. Camps to get people off the computer.
Of course it’s had quite a lot of attention given the death of one kid and another kid beaten up.
But yes, quite ridiculous. $US14k? Think of what you could do with that kind of money?
In fact, you could send someone to college for at least a year with that kind of money…45-day course?
706
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 11:36 PMImagine how many items, accounts and in-game gold you could get for $14k instead… wait, I might have missed the point of the clinic.