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Article: OVERACTIVITY ONLINE IS starting to be seen as a FORM OF addiction.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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By Nicholas K. Geranios
The Associated Press
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 ...