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China's Internet Addiction Clinic
An anonymous reader writes "China has decided that if you are spending too much time online, you must be an addict. They've just opened a clinic to treat these internet addicts. Scarier is the head gear they have one patient hooked up to, and the fact that they think that this is some sort of epidemic and will shortly be expanding and adding 200 more beds to their clinics. In my opinion, the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day. " We also covered this story last july.
Cool...do they have a website? how 'bout an RSS feed?
But drink and drugs can be a lot more fun and can involve bumping into real life horny drunken girlies and having even more fun.
Arguably more people kill themselves with Internet addiction than say marijuana. I've never heard of somebody dying after a four day streak of getting stoned.
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Indeed. I can't imagine too many people on a four-day weed bender forgetting to eat, for instance
You say that like it's a *bad* thing.
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The headgear looks pretty cool... is it some kind of new game interface? Where do I get it?
My lungs and liver may be happy, but you tell my knees that gambling is way better than alcohol and drugs.
Don't forget the lethality of dihydrogen monoxide...
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