Monday 24 August 2009

First U.S. Rehab Center For Internet Addiction Opens Its Doors

The Heavensfield Retreat Center in Fall City, USA, announced that it has opened the first recovery program for Internet Addiction Disorder in the U.S.
Called reSTART, the 45-day program is designed to take serious sufferers of IAD and bring balance to their lives. It already has its first patient, a 19 year old who could not remove himself from World of Warcraft.

The reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program is specifically oriented towards launching tech dependent youth and adults back into the real world. Our individually tailored program is designed to assist participants with an Internet and/or computer based behavioral addiction to break the cycle of dependency.

Our 45-day abstinence based recovery program exposes participants to a variety of activities and everyday life skills which are often avoided or underdeveloped as a result of excessive ongoing computer, video game play and internet use.

(via Mashable)

2 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

wow!!! thank u very much for all this information. Keep on supplying such useful information. It really is interesting.

Anonymous said...

Oh wow! Do they have a web site...