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Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today:  Britain’s First Gaming Addiction Clinic Opens

Techradar - All the latest technology news:  Gaming addiction clinic opens in UK

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Kotaku:  New UK Gaming Addiction Center Uses 12-Step Program [News]

Engadget:  China bans corporal punishment in internet rehab, UK and USA open up their own clinics

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Britain’s First Gaming Addiction Clinic Opens
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — The UK s first rehab centre for gaming addiction has opened in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Broadway Lodge treats around 400 patients annually for issues including, drink, drug and gambling addiction, and has adapted its Minnesota Method Twelve-Step abstinence programme for gamers. ''Obviously this is the very early stages of researching how many youngsters are affected," Brian Dudley, the centre's chief executive, told the Telegraph . ''But I would stick my neck out and say between five and ten per cent of parents or partners would say they know of someone addicted to an ...

Gaming addiction clinic opens in UK
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... The Telegraph claims that 'sufferers' can "spend days at a time glued to their computer screens – going without food, sleep, or any social interaction." ...

Britain opens its first rehab clinic for gamers
T3.com All — ... Patients at the clinic will take part in group therapy, video sessions and therapeutic tasks including vacuuming and washing up. According to The Telegraph : Sufferers spend days at a time glued to their computer screens - going without food, sleep, or any social interaction. As a result they suffer malnutrition, relationship-breakdown and postural problems. Brian Dudley, the centre s chief executive told the The Telegraph that he believed between five to ten per cent of the nation know someone addicted to an online game. Dudley believes that the rise and rise of online ...

Britain opens its first rehab clinic for gamers
T3.com News — ... According to The Telegraph: “Sufferers spend days at a time glued to their computer screens - going without food, sleep, or any social interaction. As a result they suffer malnutrition, relationship-breakdown and postural problems.” ...

New UK Gaming Addiction Center Uses 12-Step Program [News]
Kotaku — ... The Telegraph reports that Britain has gone and opened its first computer rehab clinic Broadway Lodge in Weston-super-Mare, England. The clinic which treats hundreds of people addicted to gambling, alcohol and drugs as well as people suffering from eating disorders and co-dependency employs an abstinence approach to breaking addiction. Additionally, they have detox programs and art therapy programs. The clinic's ...

China bans corporal punishment in internet rehab, UK and USA open up their own clinics
Engadget — ... as residential internet detox clinics. Their genius ploy to get you off the web juice has been to go cold turkey and teach people to do chores as a distraction (really, chores and boredom are the cure and not the disease?). The British version even has a 12-step program, but we advise doing what we all did -- if you find yourself spending most of your time on the internet, just become a full-time blogger. Read - China bans tough treatment of young Web addicts Read - Britain's first computer rehab clinic opens Read - Clinic for internet addicts ...