{"id":41271,"date":"2019-01-29T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41271"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T09:58:56","slug":"why-internet-addiction-is-worse-than-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-internet-addiction-is-worse-than-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why internet addiction is worse than drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/internet\/internet-addiction-spawns-treatment-programmes\/article26105053.ece\"><strong>Why internet addiction is worse than drugs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Issue: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet Addiction cases on rise and becoming public health concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>About Internet Addiction:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characterized by a <strong>loss of control over internet use and disregard for the consequences of it<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Affects up to 8% of Americans and is becoming more common around the world<\/li>\n<li>Becoming <strong>public health concern as health is influenced by behavior<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Addictions includes online gaming, gambling, social media, pornography and sexting<\/li>\n<li>Addictions to <strong>cope with symptoms of mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety<\/strong> which includes Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety Disorder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Internet Addiction as Disorder:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Neither World Health Organization (WHO) nor the American Psychiatric Association recognize internet addiction as a disorder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WHO recognized the more specific Gaming Disorder<\/strong> following years of research in China, South Korea and Taiwan where doctors have called it a public health crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Way Forwards:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reboot Program<\/strong>: a pioneer residential therapy for moderating internet use of 11-17 years old at Ohio, US<\/li>\n<li><strong>YouTube<\/strong> has created a <strong>time monitoring tool to nudge viewers to take breaks from their screens<\/strong> as part of its parent company <strong>Google\u2019s \u201cdigital wellbeing\u201d initiative<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Intensive research<\/strong> on Internet Addiction would soon produce <strong>empirical results<\/strong> to meet <strong>medical classification standards<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why internet addiction is worse than drugs Issue: Internet Addiction cases on rise and becoming public health concern About Internet Addiction: Characterized by a loss of control over internet use and disregard for the consequences of it Affects up to 8% of Americans and is becoming more common around the world Becoming public health concern&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-internet-addiction-is-worse-than-drugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why internet addiction is worse than drugs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}