Britain's first ever rehabilitation clinic for cases of video games addiction has been established in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Around 400 patients check in to Broadway Lodge each year for treatment of drugs, alcohol and gambling additions. However, the clinic has now adopted a gaming rehabilitation scheme developed in the Us called the Minnesota Method Twelve-Step Abstinence programme. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the centre's chief executive Brian Dudley said: ''Obviously this is the very early stages of researching how many youngsters are affected. But I would stick my neck out and say between five and 10% of parents or partners would say they know of someone addicted to an online game. "You can't simply say to a 23-year-old male 'you should never use the internet again'. It's just not practical. So we go through all the (more)...
- 11/3/2009
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
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