New York Times

Center Tries to Treat Web Addicts

New York Times | September 5, 2009

FALL CITY, Wash. (AP) — Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game “World of Warcraft.” As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa. Mr. Alexander, 19, needed help to break an addiction that he called as destructive as other disorders. He found it in Fall City, where what claims to be the first residential treatment center for Internet addiction (now called gaming disorder) in the United States just opened its doors. {Read Full Article at the New York Times}