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FOXNewshealth.com's Managing Editor Dr. Manny Alvarez weighs in on Internet addiction disorders.
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Researchers in China reporting that Internet addictions can damage the brain in ways similar to heavy drop.
Use an alcohol abuse means it's time to bring Dr.
-- and managing editor Fox News -- dot com -- -- all this Internet if my Mexican in my effects of my iPhone.
This is truly you know this is a better small study out of China seventeen people it has -- Basically this is a growing trend what were clearly shows that people.
-- -- -- -- -- How many people for the past seventeen this one point some odd billion people in China -- -- gonna get people that are -- exciting area anywhere compared to -- the seventeen people that we're not addicts.
But listen at the end of the day this is true.
The whole revolution of the Internet the iPhone everything you know people just can't stop.
And will -- -- is sporadic incidents where people have either neglecting their child.
Somebody has dies somebody has developed the DDT.
-- and as a matter fact in England right now.
There is a tax -- the taxpayer supported clinic both for alcoholics and Internet addicts.
So pretty soon I think pretty -- you'll see people calling for that he in the US.
Where we're gonna have you know it's you know centers for Internet addiction -- backed by.
So basically what we recommend is that if your life is turning upside down.
In view of forgetting you responsibilities UV haven't.
Difficulty with living your life without -- one of these pieces of equipment that you gotta be careful because -- allegedly.
The brain patterns are very similar to somebody who's -- and alcohol cocaine and so that's what wanted to ask about their brutal stories out there is a woman in New Mexico since a 25 years in jail because she neglected a three year old daughter.
They'll plant World of Warcraft right and and apparently that the daughter starve to death if that's -- -- and that's gonna be her defense that she was addicted to would you -- Medicine behind outsource to -- the science behind all of us well you know look at it that the -- behind anything like is is gonna take years to a 100% -- but the pattern the psychological pattern.
What everybody's looking at is -- -- is very similar to the psychological patterns of of substance abuse issue if somebody is an addicted to the Internet if this woman did neglect allegedly had neglected child would have been something else when -- when -- -- isn't it doesn't know there are -- do you think that people are addicted to gambling.
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