Internet addiction center opens in US

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/3/09 | Nicholas K. Geranios - ap

[NormsRevenge]

FALL CITY, Wash. – 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.

Alexander, 19, needed help to break an addiction he calls as destructive as alcohol or drugs. He found it in this suburb of high-tech Seattle, where what claims to be the first residential treatment center for Internet addiction in the United States just opened its doors.

The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry. It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer use, which can include obsessive use of video games, texting, Facebook, eBay, Twitter and any other time-killers brought courtesy of technology.

[Unassuaged]

So, do they have a website? :)

[DYngbld]

I can turn off the Internet any time I want.
I don't have a problem
It is only a few hours a days

[Bob]

It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer use...

Do they offer an online, lower-cost alternative program?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

For $10K I’ll come to you house and unplug your computer, save you $4.5K.

[GodfearingTexan]

boohoohoo...poor little alexander. pathetic twerp.

[nickcarraway]

What’s their URL?

[nickcarraway]

Was he listening to Rush?

[MrEdd]

Have they beaten any patients to death yet?

In the internet addiction treatment racket there are established industry standards that must be maintained.

[DYngbld]

for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer use

Heck for $100 I'll show you the power off button.

[Tired of Taxes]

There’s a bigger picture to this little story: Every behaviorism now is seen as a “disorder” that must be treated. People believe they have no control over themselves. They need to pay other people to tell them what to do.

This little story actually explains the last election.

[Cementjungle]

opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended

For $13K I'll be happy to lock you in a room without Internet for 45 days.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“People believe they have no control over themselves.”

People believe they can do whatever they want and blame it on anything they make up on the spur of a moment. Now I assume the little asshat expects someone else to pay for his “treatment”?
The most effective “treatment” for this idiot, both in cost and in reducing the likelihood of relapse would involve a Louisville slugger and a disinterested third party.

[throwback]

Alexander is so far the only patient of the program, which uses a cold turkey approach. He spends his days in counseling and psychotherapy sessions, doing household chores, working on the grounds, going on outings, exercising and baking a mean batch of ginger cookies.

I think they just sent him to his grandparents. Grandma talks to him for a while, and then tells him to take the garbage out and go get groceries. Pretty much the therapy I get from the wife when I won't get up from Empire Total War.

[savage woman]

LOL, LOL, LOL

[savage woman]

You all are too funny...

[ScottinVA]

[ScottinVA]

“Now I assume the little asshat expects someone else to pay for his “treatment”?

Likely he would support 0bamaCare.

[freespirited]

What is this nonsense about internet addiction? Some days I go a full six hours without logging on to FR.