Addicted to the internet? There may be help

September 8, 11:15 AM | Boston Health News Examiner | C. Stacy Beam

Do you ever find yourself not being able to tear yourself away from Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites?  Do you spend endless hours on blogs, message boards, IM chat rooms or even computer video games?  Well, if you said 'yes' to any of the above, you may just be a typical, plugged-in, tech-savy person.  Or you may have a problem. 

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Internet addiction: Local professionals say treatments still emerging

First residential facility of its kind opened this summer near Seattle

Chicago Tribune | Bonnie Miller Rubin | September 9, 2009

Though the nation's first residential treatment center for Internet addiction opened this summer near Seattle, local experts say they've been treating the problem for some time."In the last few years, I'm hearing from more parents who are very concerned," said Jeanette Spires, a Lake Forest-based educational consultant who matches troubled teens with the right therapeutic setting. "Their kids have stopped going to school ... because they are just obsessed."

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ReSTART Internet Addiction Center Opens in Seattle

Paste Magazine | By Michael Saba on September 10, 2009 7:30 AM

ReSTART, the world's first Internet-addiction residential treatment program, opened recently in Redmond, Wash. (ironically enough, the neighborhood where Microsoft was founded). The center offers a 45-day, $14,000 rehabilitation course that promises to help addicts ease dependencies on social networking, online video games, texting and a host of other technological time-wasters.

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WoW.com interview: Dr. Hilarie Cash of reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program

by Mike Schramm Sep 9th 2009 at 2:00PM

We've talked about Internet addiction before a few times here on the site, but it's always been through the lens of the media. Certainly there are players of WoW and other games out there who play the game so much it's affecting their lives, but most of the cases we've heard about have been a little over the top -- parents crying that their children are lost, kids playing nonstop and picking up bad health and social habits from this horrible game. {Read the Full Article at WOW.com}