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INTERNET ADDICTION

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Jan 28, 2019
The digital drug: Internet addiction spawns innovative U.S. treatment programs
When Danny Reagan was 13, he began exhibiting signs of what doctors usually associate with drug addiction. He became agitated, secretive and withdrew from friends. He had quit baseball and Boy Scouts, and he stopped doing homework and showering.
EDITORIALS
Sep 2, 2013
Net addiction a growing problem
Steps must be taken to combat the problem of Internet addiction, which is affecting a growing number of children and adults.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 17, 2013
Cyber-kids get a break during Bon holidays
You didn't need prophetic powers, back in the 1980s when the personal computer was starting to show its potential, to foresee something like Internet addiction. It should have been obvious. It was, to science-fiction writer William Gibson. Reminiscing to Time magazine in 1995, he recalled his shock, as he walked by a video-game arcade sometime in the late '80s, at how absorbed the players were in their glowing screens. "I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were," he said. "These kids clearly believed in the space the games projected. They develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen."
JAPAN / Society
Aug 1, 2013
Study: 8.1% of Japan secondary school students may be 'Internet addicts'
A government panel says that 8.1 percent of around 100,000 junior high and high school students polled nationwide are suspected of being “Internet addicts.”

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