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Americans Internet addicts will be forced to treat
Baku, September 23 (AZERTAC). People suffering from Internet addiction in the United States far more than the alcoholics and drug addicts together. Those are the statistics. Researchers concluded that "digital" epidemic takes on the character of a national catastrophe. For those who can not live without the Net, offer to go to a special clinic.
One of the newest psychiatric hospital that offers its customers the treatment of Internet addiction is located in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Experts believe addicted those who spend on the web for more than 6 hours a day, and do it not for the solutions business or educational problems, but just for fun.
The treatment of common diseases in America today only lasts 10 days, but it is worth 14,000 dollars. In the list of services that covers the standard medical insurance, treatment of the "Internet of hunger" is not included, since this type of formal dependence is not recognized as a psychiatric disorder.
Treatment will be a group therapy. Similarly, American doctors are trying to rid of the dependence of alcoholics and drug addicts. Doctors stress that they will work with people whose lives are out of control because of the obsession with the Internet. "If you're 20 years old and in between conversations with the girl you are playing online games, then you're all right. At least, not yet," - say representatives of the psychiatric clinic of Bradford. But those who play constantly and stops communicating with real people, ready to tackle specialists.
The idea that a person can become dependent on the information that came from psychiatrists in the early 1990s. The first study on the subject was written in 1996. With the development of internet problem began to become increasingly daunting, doctors say. Therefore, the methods of combating it must be relevant. For example, students of the University of Massachusetts offer a treat Internet addiction electroshock.