SEOUL, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A study of 5.2 million elementary, middle and high school students in South Korea has found nearly 2 percent of them are obsessed with the Internet.
MONTREAL, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- There is no lack of data on compulsive gambling and alcoholism, but there is a vacuum when it comes to Internet addiction, Canadian researchers said.
PEORIA, Ill., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- An Illinois hospital has created an in-patient facility to treat Internet addicts.
WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- The author of a book on Internet addiction says that 5 to 10 percent of the U.S. population is hooked with larger percentages in other countries addicted.
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The growing problem of Internet addiction has prompted the creation of a South Korean camp aimed at weaning afflicted individuals off the technology.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Internet addiction should be grouped with extreme addictive disorders such as gambling, sex addiction and kleptomania, an Israeli psychiatrist said.
ORLANDO, Fla., June 21 (UPI) -- The American Medical Association plans to vote on a recommendation to classify Internet and video-game addiction as a formal diagnosis.
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Experts have questioned whether Internet addiction constitutes a psychological disorder and an Arlington, Va., group may add it to its diagnostic manual.
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A growing number of healthcare specialists estimate that 6-10 percent of the approximately 189 million U.S. Internet are addicted.
FARMINGTON, Conn., March 17 (UPI) -- A higher percentage of Internet gamblers develop serious addiction problems compared to others who wager, researchers reported Sunday in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, a journal of the American Psychological Association. Therapists call Internet gambl
