First NHS-funded internet addiction centre
A hospital in the UK is to be the first to set up an NHS-funded internet addiction centre. The west London centre will start in the next couple of weeks and be aimed at people with gaming disorders.Other internet-based addictions could be treated in future, however.Psychiatrist and clinic founder Henrietta Bowden-Jones said the centre will seek to provide treatment, do research and give advice to families.She told The Guardian: "Gaming disorder is finally getting the attention it deserves."The distress and harm it can cause is extreme and I feel a moral duty on behalf of the NHS to provide the evidence-based treatment these young people and their families need."We are unlikely to witness an epidemic of young players with an addiction to gaming but for the ones who do strugg...
