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Internet addiction, as you know, is a growing worldwide concern. Recently, the UK opened its first rehab clinic for Internet Addiction (the provocatively named Broadway Lounge).The therapy is aimed at "screenagers" - teens who spend hours a day online.The clinic at at Capio Nightingale Hospital will cater to children aged 15 to 17. Visitors to the hospital website can take a test to guage their level of technology addiction, answering questions about their online habits and how these habits are perceived by others.The treatment Dr Graham has designed is in three stages. It begins with psychotherapy designed to address the patient's issues with face-to-face relationships.The next stage is to unpick their relationship with technology and encourage them to switch it off, and finally they are encouraged to take part in both physical exercise and activities with family and friends.Online gambling clinics have already sprung up across South East Asia, where excessive amounts of time spent in virtual worlds is causing real life problems.A recent example is that of a South Korean couple who let their baby starve while they played role-playing wow gold game Prius Online for up to 12 hours at a time. Dr Graham comments that the behaviour of such addicts can be "desperate and extreme". But when Graham and his team announced they would be signing up to play the popular online game "wow gold" to research its addiction, some within the gaming community saw this as a patronizing move. "wow gold players, on the other hand, who may suffer from the false consciousness of not wanting to be saved, might characterize Dr. Richard Graham as a clueless noob who should be ganked as often as possible.Others from within a community of "wow gold" players might be more inclined to agree with Graham. One Web site, offers an online support group for people trying to give up their gaming habit. Users report problems with their social lives, marriages and work.
