A group of adolescents interred at an internet addiction boot camp rose up against their oppressors last week, restraining their supervisor and fleeing the facility to taste sweet, sweet freedom. At least until their parents sent them back. More »
The Christian Science Monitor recently visited Beijing’s internet addiction centre to talk to the docs and addicts about the issue of, among other things, gaming addiction.
The Boston Globe has an intriguing question and answer session up with Dr. Jerald Block, who specialises in online video game addiction.
Block, a psychiatrist in Portland, Ore., recently wrote an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that Internet Addiction should become a new diagnostic term.
It’s interesting to read his thoughts and them to compare it to the things being said by the psychiatrists I interviewed back in 1999 when I wrote a story about how researchers think that Internet and Sex addiction are very similar. Back then a David Greenfield, director for the Centre of Internet Studies, told me that the Internet was addictive and that that particular form of addiction was nearing a national epidemic… yet somehow we survived.
