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First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center
An anonymous reader writes "Taking their lead from China, two Americans have opened the first US-based Internet Addiction treatment center in Fall City, Wash. — ironically close to Redmond (Microsoft's hometown). The center, called reStart: Internet Addiction Recovery Program, is a 45-day treatment center where, for a steep set of fees, people can be cured of their addiction to the Web. After paying the $200 application fee, addicts are charged $14,500 for the 45 days, an additional $800 for a screening, and more for extra services, like kayaking ($1,575)."
If it was, slashdot would have about five comments per story, because we'd all be there except those nine women who post here!
The gay nerds would be gone because those nine women would scare them off...
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Another way to get money out of those rich folks who can afford it.
Better than making your money from poor people who can't.
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There's an alternate: your neighborhood bar. However, it's almost as expensive...
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Organizations like AA claim to beat addiction, but what they really do is redirect the addiction to less harmful (in theory) pursuits. So, many recovering addicts become heavy coffee drinkers, or heavy smokers, or get really big into religion (God addiction?)
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Wow. Ummm. Wow. AA so dose not just redirect the addictive behaviors to something else. That is what some do who go to the meetings but do not follow the program. That though is not the teachings of the program or their aim.
Knowledge is better than pretending you have some.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?