China’s ministry of health has banned the use of electric shock treatment to cure internet addiction. The move follows growing concern in the country about young people’s compulsive use of chat rooms, ...

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - China has banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, citing uncertainty in the safety and effectiveness of the practice after criticism in the local ...

IN CHINA, if you are a kid who spends a long time online, you had better watch out. Your parents may send you off for “treatment”. At the Internet Addiction Treatment Centre in Beijing, children must ...

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - When Danny Reagan was 13, he began exhibiting signs of what doctors usually associate with drug addiction. He became agitated, secretive and withdrew from friends. He had quit ...

Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behavior and tendencies, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The findings, published in ...

FALL CITY, Wash. - The first in-patient treatment center in the country for Internet addiction just opened in Fall City. The first patient was 19. I would play until I would fall asleep on my keyboard ...

As the overdose crisis rages on and the pandemic-fatigued public runs low on empathy, there have been increasing calls for expanded involuntary commitment for people with substance use disorder. Some ...

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