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New UK Gaming Addiction Center Uses 12-Step Program [News]
Source: Kotaku
Nov 04, 2009


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The Telegraph reports that Britain has gone and opened its first computer rehab clinic Broadway Lodge in Weston-super-Mare, England.

The clinic — which treats hundreds of people addicted to gambling, alcohol and drugs as well as people suffering from eating disorders and co-dependency — employs an abstinence approach to breaking addiction. Additionally, they have detox programs and art therapy programs.

The clinic's website hasn't been updated to reflect its new computer addiction services — but the Telegraph reports the clinic's had success using the 12-step program similar to the one used by Alcoholics Anonymous to treat young adults.

But, before you cry out for the blood of people who unfairly cast World of Warcraft as an insidious, addictive substance — consider that the clinic's chief executive acknowledges that the game itself isn't the problem:

Mr Dudley believes treating game addiction needs a different approach to "conventional" vices like drink and drugs.

''Obviously this is the very early stages of researching how many youngsters are affected," he

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